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...first wife, a bright, game girl named Eileen O'Shaughnessy. One of the delights of this sensitive, intelligent book is its portrayal of Eileen and of her importance to Orwell's new identity. In their first summer together, they kept a sparse little shop (candy, string, tea, flour) in a country village, gardening and tending goats and chickens while Orwell worked on Wigan Pier. Through all his later years of anguished achievement and fame, write the authors, "the happiness of that long-ago summer would never be recaptured...
...move by the Soviets across the Pul-i-Hesti bridge over the Kabul River. Thousands of protesters were trapped in the narrow streets surrounding the bazaar. According to witnesses, the Soviet vehicles fired into the demonstrators, leaving hundreds dead. Later, Kabul residents say, Soviet soldiers looted fruit, sacks of flour, canned goods and clothing from the bazaar, shooting off the locks of shuttered stores...
...spaghetti and bolts of cloth, a café where men sat drinking cups of steaming spiced tea laced with sour camel milk, a stall where a cobbler took orders for made-to-measure goatskin sandals. Camels groaned in protest as their owners loaded them up with sacks of rice, flour and sugar; the sounds blended unevenly with the bleat of goats and sheep grazing on the scrubby vegetation of a nearby field...
...Minnesota, farmers sometimes stack bales of straw or garbage bags full of leaves against the outside of drafty house foundations. Cora Lee McKnight, 68, a Decatur, Mich., grandmother tells of Depression-era schemes to beat the cold: smearing a paste of flour and water into cracks, stuffing thickly folded newspapers between window and screen. "And we usually put hot-water bottles into our beds to keep our feet warm," she says. Other sug gestions: wrapping water heaters in blankets, insulating windows with corrugated cardboard and placing old carpets under new ones...
...some tropical lands, leaves from the tree are eaten like candy by children and, dipped in a pepper sauce, as a tasty hors d'oeuvre by adults. Its seed pods are chewed or stewed or painted as tourist trinkets; the seeds can be ground as a surrogate for flour or coffee. Better yet, the leaves can be used for protein-rich cattle feed, and nitrogen-fixing bacteria on the roots help to fertilize the soil. Because of its rapid growth, the tree could become a vital source of the firewood still used to cook food...