Word: kaolin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...townspeople awoke to see a huge Cross of Lorraine painted in kaolin* on the broad lawns on the Jardin d' Ambohijatovo on Poincaré Square, where nearly the whole town could see it. Native gardeners were ordered to wash away the Cross with water; it hardened. They dug up the kaolined turf; the Cross remained boldly outlined in the red soil. They filled it in with new grass; for seven days it showed starkly until the grass grew green. Thereafter the new turf grew more green than the old, and the Cross still showed...