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...roof. Williams' main worries are food and medicine. During peacetime, she would get bulgur wheat from the World Food Program. Now she gets nothing. The price of a bag of rice has quintupled since the latest round of fighting began. Her storeroom holds only a half-bag of flour among empty drums of cooking oil. There's a well, but no chlorine to treat the water. Some of the kids have dysentery. Nearly 200 children depend on her. She barely manages to feed them once a day. "But why?" she asks. "Why can't the Americans help, since...
...dinner starts with Scallion Pancakes ($4.50)—glutinous rice flour stuffed with scallions and herbs, pan-fried until brown and served with ginger sauce. They arrive from the kitchen piping hot, served on a bright blue triangular dish. The pancakes live up to their posh presentation—they’re more savory and less greasy than their counterparts at the Kong. Smile’s other appetizer options include: golden triangles ($4.50), diced potato, onion and curry powder wrapped in a pastry roll; and tod mun ($4.95), minced shrimp and codfish mixed with Thai spices...
...most immediate priority for Iraq is water. Reports over the weekend suggested that Iraqis were so desperate for water that they were drinking from the sewage-infested Tigris. After the people have water, they will need flour. And then they will need sugar. Humanitarian agencies are already working tirelessly inside Iraq to distribute these essentials. They need—and, to are large extent, they are receiving—both financial and administrative support from the American government...
...feed 27 million people? That task requires 480,000 tons of food every month and some way of distributing it. In Najaf a woman in black with six children in tow appeared with her ration card at an American outpost. It was her day to get rice and flour. Who would feed her now? Soldiers found her enough food for a week or so; no one knew what would happen after that...
...small graduation procession are in for a good show. The freshly diploma'd dottore is stripped, trussed and propped on a bench. He must then deliver a long, excruciatingly embarrassing ode written by his friends. For every misread word, the grad swigs booze and gets pelted with eggs and flour. The ordeal ends when the ode is affixed to the university walls for all to see. No pomp here. And therein lies the secret to Padua: It's more than willing to share its charms, but you need to know where to look...