Word: limes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laid out in the sun to dry. They are then soaked in a solution of water and kerosene, which releases the cocaine contained in the leaves. Peasants stomp on the soaking mixture for several hours to turn it into coca paste, which is then mixed with sulfuric acid, lime, potassium permanganate and more kerosene. The cream-colored substance that is left after the liquid is squeezed out is coca base, the raw material that is sent to refineries to be turned into cocaine. This transformation is accomplished by combining the paste with ether and acetone to remove impurities, and filtering...
Judging by the popularity of fish in upscale restaurants, the curiosity is justified. Patrick Terrail, owner of Ma Maison, the Los Angeles celebrity haunt, reports that his fish sales are double those of meat. "God forbid that eight years ago I had served a raw fish in lime juice as an appetizer," he says. Today his marinated salmon in lime juice is a big seller on the posh menu...
Nothing is that clear-cut in the world of these stories. Shacochis shows a keen awareness of lush disparities. He evokes the allure of a village marketplace, "the air luscious with the smells of spices, of frying coconut oil and garlic and cumin, the scents of frangipani and lime." The counterimage appears in a neighborhood of ghetto shanties, where everything "smelled like rotting fruit and kerosene, urine and garlic." In Hunger, a lone white works alongside a team of black fishermen; near the end of their labors, they all retire to a deserted beach for an extended evening feast...
...Rescue workers brought out the remnants in plastic bags. By Tuesday evening, 272 coffins were taken to the cemetery in the nearby barrio of Caracoles, where Caterpillar tractors dug two trenches about 200 ft. long and 10 ft. deep. The coffins were stacked in the mass grave, covered with lime and then buried. A crowd of 10,000 clutched flowers and murmured prayers...
...easier to sell a pumpkin to the American public than a lime: Rooney's book, unlike Royko's, is on The New York Times Best Seller List, number four for the week ending October 31. I can only hope that Halloween had something to do with it, but people this month, too, are preferring the trick to the treat. Royko should expect this, though, for it was Mencken who noted. "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people...