Word: blackish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...songs, mostly written by Townshend and Entwistle, are conceived with flagrant imagination and tautly, expressively written. Daltrey sings them with a blackish brackish voice in rhythmic patterns such that there is always a lilting melodious quality to them an effect which combines marvelously with the underlying relentless fast-paced beat. The lyrics are startlingly effective and form a muscular tense poetry. A recent song by a major West Coast group complaining about a faithless girl went something like "I was such a fool, I should have known better, She was untrue, wah wah wah etc." Here...
...Over blackish cliffs, dead...
Wash Off the Black. The treatment, Dr. Moyer admitted, is "an exceedingly primitive scientific solution" to the burn problem, but it is "unbelievably successful." It also produces some bizarre effects. All the dressings, which have to be kept soaked in the solution and changed daily, turn the blackish color of tarnished silver. So do doctors' and nurses' gowns and the equipment in the patients' rooms. New skin also appears black at first, but when it is strong enough to be washed, it appears a normal, healthy pink...