The U.S. prisoners, Acevedo says, were given 100 grams of bread per week made of redwood sawdust, ground glass and barley.
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There, 28, 000 people died of hunger, disease, and from eating the ground glass that the British were alleged to have put in their food.
The propaganda value of this tale was enhanced by the fact that it is all true (apart from the bit about the ground glass, a later embellishment).
Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.
This creates the small compartments into which a paste of finely ground, coloured glass and water is placed.
On the ground floor, a glass wall shows off the broken pottery.
But the surprise may not be anything as ground-breaking as Google Glass, perhaps not even much in the way of hardware at all.
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The screen stops well above the sidewalk, revealing V-shaped concrete supports and a glass-walled ground floor with views of a double-height sunken gallery inside.
Visitors will be able to peer down to the foundations through glass panels in the ground floor.
When our cameras inevitably emerged from our purses to capture the moment, our young guide quickly placed his glass of Efes on the ground under the table.
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As he was walking through the house, there was a loud pop, then flying glass before he rose off the ground and was thrown on his kitchen floor.
The moments where Artyom has to fend off a monster that has pinned him to the ground, or pluck a mutant spider from the glass of his gasmask, are satisfyingly visceral.
So he was suggesting that maybe the vice president was emphasizing the glass half full, but acknowledged the realities on the ground.
Later, after the buildings fell, a cameraman and I cut through the dust and walked toward ground zero, where the sky was filled with fine pieces of glass and acrid smoke.
The high-tech glass pavilion, built in just over a fortnight on open ground in front of the convention centre where the meeting is to be held, is powered by photovoltaic panels which cover the whole of its sloping south-facing wall.
We are all in one room on the ground floor - it's the only room in the house which has glass in the windows.
But, the shattered glass of the Constitution lies at your feet, undercutting the once solid ground it provided for standing against the abuse of power by the powerful.
The high-level waste would then be enclosed in glass canisters and buried deep underground while the low-level waste was stored above ground in special secure facilities.
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The game is played with 49 glass or ceramic marbles grouped together on a 2m-diameter concrete cylinder raised 7cm off the ground and covered in sand.
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