Word: flouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Be Proletarian." Tanya was three years old when the Russian Revolution started. One of her first experiences was hunger. "For months and months our diet . . . consisted of yellow maize flour, which was made into thin soup, thick porridge, or small buns. When the pangs of hunger became very acute, we ate a handful of raw, uncooked flour. It tasted sweet, but one got hiccups afterward...
Bitter Motto. The refugees huddle in leaky tents, dress in tatters, live on dates and flour. Their children run wild; the camps are periodically menaced by smallpox, dysentery, typhoid. The Arab refugees' bitter motto: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
Agricouture. The Agriculture Department, always ready to help the cotton farmer, showed newsmen some bright print dresses made from cotton fertilizer bags. Dresses from flour bags are old stuff, but the department had worked for months to invent a dye that would withstand the chemical effects of the fertilizer. Purpose: to make cotton fertilizer bags competitive with cheaper paper ones...
What was the mysterious madness? Pont-Saint-Esprit speculated that the village idiot had hexed Baker Briand's flour, that the flour had been packed in fertilizer sacks, that rats in the grain elevator had contaminated the flour. The police knew better. They had traced the flour back from Briand's bakeshop through the government-controlled flour depot to a mill near Poitiers, nearly 300 miles away...
...acknowledged selling him the grain, charged them both with involuntary homicide. In Pont-Saint-Esprit, the toll of illness passed 200; four had died, 28 were still on the critical list. France considered itself lucky: all the contaminated grain seemed to have gone into that one bag of flour delivered to Baker Roch Briand...