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Word: flours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chummy enough with Perón to put his picture and Perón's together on Paraguayan postage stamps. But of late Argentina's revolutionary government has been pressing for de-Peronization in Paraguay as well as at home. Argentine exports to Paraguay of vitally needed flour and other foods began to fall off significantly. A fortnight ago. Stroessner sent a top general to hold private talks with Argentina's new President Pedro Aramburu. Upon the general's return, Stroessner ran a quiet housecleaning and offered Mendez and his Peronista cohorts honorable ambassadorships in distant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Christmas Plot | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...serving take two dressed quail, simmer in one pint of chicken broth for 15 minutes; remove birds from broth and pluck meat from bones, returning the meat (finely chopped) to broth until cooked; thicken with one tablespoon of flour, season to taste and serve on toast points or with hominy grits. (The President prefers grits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...tenets included "grass eating, having babies without doctors, standing on your head to make your hair grow." He favored one-legged squatting exercises, no alcohol, no steaks (lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup to nuts, beet juice and carrot strips). He pioneered in popularizing bed-boards, enriched flour, scanty swimsuits and sunbathing. He celebrated his 81st, 83rd and 84th birthdays by parachuting from aircraft, getting his brittle, still impressively muscular 5-ft. 6-in. body to earth without injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

None of the abundant policemen have set to work on the corn and beans deal; instead, a new food scandal broke. Guatemala's established importers of flour charged that Minister of Economy Jorge Arenales had set up a quota system that virtually handed an import monopoly to a group of businessmen represented by his own former law partner. Arenales tried to defend his move as an encouragement for growing and milling wheat locally. But the press was unconvinced. Columnist José Alfredo Palmieri sighed: "Corn, beans, and now flour-the best profits are always made on hunger . . . Food speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Cops & Scandals | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Recipe. In Providence, police looked for the vandals who broke into the Homestead Baking Co., dumped 1,500 Ibs. of sugar and 1,500 Ibs. of flour on the floor, mixed the mess carefully with 50 gallons of salad oil and a case and a half of soft drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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