Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After work, the men take hot showers, chuck their dirty clothes into washing machines and take off for the chow hall. There are separate menus for the two prevailing cultures on board. The Cajuns get their rice, beans and gumbo and the Mississippians their ham, greens and potatoes. Then they talk sex, watch television or play a Cajun card game called Bourée (pronounced boo-ray). To a visitor, there seems a relaxed camaraderie aboard, as though the men had achieved a kind of brotherhood through suffering. Still, there is no desire by the men to see their experience...
...depots were about 10 ft. by 15 ft. in area and dug perhaps 6½ ft. into the ground, like bunkers. The tops were made of logs, with camouflage over them. They were full of ammunition, rice, medical supplies and gasoline. Rubber pipes connected a pump in each depot to a nearby river, so that drivers could get water for themselves and their trucks. Signs instructed visitors to PLEASE PARK THE TRUCK, HAVE YOUR MEAL, YOUR DRINKS AND PLEASE SIGN IN AND OUT. Another sign read: THE ROAD IS HARD, BUT WE WILL MAKE...
WHAT can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died of lockjaw? That she was tightlipped. And tongue-tied. That she loved Mao and Che, and brown rice sprinkled with soybeans and sunflower seeds. And me. She never told me what the order was, which somehow still bugs me. Family tradition was always to be numero uno, don't you know...
Blue is used for crop destruction primarily, acting very effectively against grasses and rice. Blue contains derivatives of arsenic compounds, and the HAC is now working out laboratory tests which should be able to detect traces of these compounds in human hair; that way, the interaction of the herbicides with the human food chain should be clarified, and some of the long-lasting effects of the herbicides may become known...
...variety of situations. Narrow strips along roadsides, along the perimeters of military installations, along canals and along rivers have been sprayed to reduce cover which might hide troop movements. In the Delta region of the south, most of the population lives in homes along the canal banks, with their rice fields extending away from the canals, behind their homes. American strip spraying dumped herbicides directly on these huts (and their inhabitants) while killing vegetation along the banks of the canals...