Word: rancid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delivery was slow and not without complications. It began in 1955 when Hakim along with two other cons organized an art class. "That was the transitional point. That was the point of moving from that rancid cancerous feeling about white folks to the point of starting to see myself, you know, beginning to understand myself, and if you remember, it was about this time that Malcolm began to speak in public. Brothers in the joint began to hear a black man articulating the thing that they couldn't articulate. We began to take a certain pride in being black...
...taste said that eating was like chewing and swallowing flour paste or sawdust. Those suffering from loss of the sense of smell reported that they were unable to detect the aroma of foods or the odors of smoke or escaping cooking gas. Several women reported that they had served rancid foods to their families because they did not notice the spoilage...