Word: flouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmer had to pay taxes on his land and machinery, and he also paid most of the taxes Henry pays . . . The miller, too, had taxes to pay . . . Transporting the flour included taxes-railroad taxes, taxes on gasoline and oil. The baker . . . paid taxes on his property, unemployment-compensation and social-security taxes . . . The retailer's mark-up included still more taxes . . ." One way or another, all these items wound up in Henry's toast...
...Then the dry mix. Flour: two parts white, one part whole wheat. Add baking powder, two tablespoons. Add salt to taste -if the party had a drink the night before, add a little bit more salt so they can taste the pancake. Put it through the sifter together. Then stir until the batter is smooth...
Jessie's TV Notebook (Tues. 12:30 p.m., ABC-TV) features Jessie De Both, a veteran of newspaper cooking pages, who sports high-fashion hats while up to her elbows in flour, and wears the determinedly jolly air of a police matron speeding a departing inmate. When not badgering stray males from the studio audience by tying skillets to their shirttails, Jessie hammers home the virtues of her sponsoring products. Sample kitchen hint: don't sew up your turkey after stuffing it, use safety pins...
...mean storytellers themselves: during the German retreat in 1945, he and five other German soldiers had been looting the store, when German demolition bombs destroyed its entrance and entombed them. Two of the trapped men committed suicide; another two died. The two remaining buried their comrades in piles of flour, lived on the vast stores of food in the bunker, washed in schnapps to conserve the small supply of water which seeped through cracks in the concrete walls. When Polish workers cleared the rubble from the shelter's entrance, they crawled...
...display their wares. Some lay their little collections on the ground, brushing away the dust which sifts off Bell Street. They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll. Some have rice, flour, corn, and cotton cloth. They get the food in devious ways. One said that he had his rice from a Department of Justice employee, another said his came from a South Korean soldier...