Word: kasha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kasha said the new building at 651 Huntington Ave. will continue Bagnoud's "joyful spirit of self-giving and loving care for others...
...Francois was committed to rescue and compassion for people. He had the unique ability to touch people," said Alan Kasha, Bagnoud's college roommate who now chairs the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud United States Foundation. "He was the kind of person that you met once and remembered...
...Francois-Xavier Bagnoud] building will allow the school to realize their mission in public health through cutting-edge facilities," Kasha said...
...conditions of life for the soldiers in Chechnya were dreadful. In Afghanistan we were issued special rations of canned meat, condensed milk, juice, crackers, tea and a Sterno can, so you could heat up kasha or rice with the canned meat. All I saw our soldiers eating in Chechnya was pearl barley with a bare hint of meat. Looking at this meager fare, I had the impression that we must have eaten up all the army's stores of dried rations in Afghanistan and that no one had bothered to produce any since then...
Food privileges elicit the deepest anger. Although there are plenty of potatoes and kasha, a kind of porridge, ordinary Soviets must wait in long lines, sometimes for hours, to purchase such "luxuries" as soap, coffee and sausage. Meat that is not nine-tenths gristle is seldom available. Yet special shops for higher-ups are well stocked. On New Year's Eve people who rushed to the scene of a car crash in the Ukrainian town of Chernigov were incensed to discover a lavish cache of meats and vodka in the trunk of the damaged official vehicle. They seized the delicacies...