Word: flouring
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...BLOWERS COME IN ALL different styles, but they don't tend to be the boss's choice to inherit the top job. Mark Whitacre, 38, was just such a favorite at giant Archer Daniels Midland, the company that calls itself "supermarket to the world" because its products range from flour to vegetable oil. So close was Whitacre to ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas that the older man regarded the younger as a "second son." And as if to emulate his mentor, Whitacre lived in a colonial-style mansion in Moweaqua, Illinois, that Andreas once owned...
...Maconderos can be found in Of Love and Other Demons (Knopf; 147 pages; $21). Their literary roots are unmistakable. The Marquis de Casalduero is "a funereal, effeminate man, as pale as a lily because the bats drained his blood while he slept." His powerhouse wife Bernarda imports and resells flour and sleeps with the help. Their daughter Maria has rejected her European origins for the Yoruban language and ornaments of her African servants. Added to this New World mix are Abrenuncio, a Portuguese-Jewish physician suspected of necromancy, and Father Cayetano Delaura, a young priest with a thirst for banned...
...estimated 1.5 million Leningraders began to die. "We were allowed to go into the city," she says. "I took two friends from the place where we were digging and went to my uncle's apartment." There was no food, but they begged a handful of flour from a friend who worked in a bakery. Then they boiled water, added salt and mustard, and made the flour into small dumplings. "I got a tree and some decorations," she says, her face creasing with laughter. "We sang songs. We ate our soup. We had a celebration...
Castro is on the scene before 2 a.m. and there until 11 a.m. Underground during the graveyard shift, he bakes everything from donuts, croissants and muffins to brownies, cakes and pies. On big baking days, 300 pounds of flour will pass through the gargantuan ovens. The bakery down under is the sole provider of goodies for all the houses, the Greenhouse Cafe, three other on-campus cafes and Harvard Catering...
...suggested question in a handbook for priests reads, "Have you done what some women do? They take off their clothes and smear honey all over their naked bodies and then lay down...onto some wheat...then roll around a lot this way and that...and make bread from the flour and give it to their husbands...