Word: flours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political way started calling her by the nickname Erh Kan-tzu, literally Two Stalks, because her legs were skinny and she strutted about on them in brave style. She had lost weight because she was subsisting on very little, eating almost nothing, just two shao-ping (wheat-flour pancakes common to North China) a day. And she cut corners in other ways. Why was she so concerned about saving money? "To pay off Li Ta-chang!" she responded brightly, refusing to elaborate, but implying that for her at least there was a price on Party membership...
...letters and notebooks. They contain their share of Twainian "stretchers," or exaggerations. From the gold camps of the West he wrote: "I have had my whiskers and moustaches as full of alkali dust that you'd have thought I worked in a starch factory and boarded in a flour barrel." Twain might have been less than joyous about the whole affair; he once said that "all private letters of mine make my flesh creep when I see them again after a lapse of years...
...grew it, untouched even by salt and pepper, which, Graham claimed, could cause insanity. For that reason he opposed removing the bran from wheat and, for reasons that had more to do with conscience than science, became one of the first modern health-food faddists, the advocate of graham flour who gave his name to a cracker...
Alimentary evangelism had many well-known preachers. In the mid-1800s the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and his sisters Catherine and Harriet sermonized against bread made from bleached flour. "What had been the staff of life for countless ages," said Beecher, "had become a weak crutch." Bad morals went with a bad diet, according to Mrs. Horace Mann, who in 1861 published her cookbook Christianity in the Kitchen. A fruitful wedding of faith, faddism and free enterprise was not long in coming. As early as 1866, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, manager of a Battle Creek sanatorium, was prescribing generous doses...
...than two decades ago, raise and sell the birds; the four largest firms account for only about 20% of the business. The nation's biggest producer, North Carolina's Holly Farms (weekly output: nearly 5 million broilers) is a subsidiary of Memphis-based Federal Co., a large flour miller, but other big companies have been unable to make a go of chicken raising. Ralston Purina, once No. 1 in the business, and Pillsbury both dropped out of the broiler game in the 1960s...