Lately, weather irregularities have affected even turpentine, which is a foundational component of synthetic scents.

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Highsmith's mother later told her that she'd tried to induce an abortion by drinking turpentine.

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Protesters there threw paint-filled light bulbs at police, who responded with a water cannon loaded with blue dye and turpentine-tainted water.

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Hurston was a trained anthropologist as well as a writer, and her stories about fruit pickers and hoodoo workers in sawmill and turpentine camps create an intimate portrait of southern black rural life.

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