Word: brownish
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...excellent" fingerprints revealed on a vanity mirror, a purse, a water glass, a door and a plate. The third, and not the least important, was Corazon's description of the killer: a white man, approximately 25 years old, 6 ft. tall, weighing 170 Ibs., with crew-cut brownish hair...
...been shot on earth, it would hardly have been worth a first glance. Its composition was uninspired and its subject - a rough-surfaced grey rock lying on brownish grey, clumpy soil -was singularly dull. Yet it was a histor ic picture - a color photograph taken on the surface of the moon. The dis tinguished and prolific photographer: Surveyor...
...simple line map of the world, sketched in faded brownish ink on a single small (about 11 in. by 16 in.) sheet of patched and worm-eaten vellum seems humdrum. In reality, it is by far the most important cartographic discovery of this century. It is the first map (see below) ever found that shows any part of the Western Hemisphere before the voyage of Columbus...
...religious violence that has ripped India and Pakistan for months was touched off by a hair trigger. When a brownish bristle from the head of the Prophet Mohammed was stolen from a mosque in Kashmir last December, long dormant hatreds erupted between the Hindus and Moslems. Though the relic was ultimately recovered, anti-Hindu rioting broke out in Kashmir and East Pakistan. When refugees reached near by Calcutta with tales of Moslem terror, the Hindus struck back...
...silver and crystal bottle, wrapped in three cloth bags, nestled in three wooden boxes, locked in a cabinet, in the innermost of four cells, protected by four guards, a brownish hair from the head of Mohammed has lain for three centuries in Srinagar's mosque of Hazrat Bal. On holy days, the prophet's hair is tenderly removed from its resting place, attached to a chain and locked around the waist of one or the other of five Bandey brothers, the hereditary keepers who alone are permitted to touch the sacred relic and show it to Moslem worshipers...