Word: charcoaling
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...bright spot in old San Antonio until 1937 was its Hay Market Plaza. There, on the Mexican West Side at evening charcoal blazed under open pots and Mexican "Chili Queens" served hot tamales, enchiladas, tortillas, chili-&-beans, famed menudo (tender tripe and hominy) to customers at sidewalk tables. Then San Antonio authorities ran the "Chili Queens" off the Plaza as a "sanitary" measure...
...height of his ability to characterize in a few, sure lines. His pen sketches show extreme accuracy. Rarely does he discard a stroke. Instead of water colors, he favors the use of gouache which gives his figures greater substance. Mr. Rubenstein's skill in drawing is best in his charcoal, "Jimmy," and in "Miner's Daughter," the prized of the exhibition...
...fostered grow to ungovernable dimensions. After a lifetime in international trade he began to fear Japanese isolation. He experimented endlessly with cheap native foods in an effort to make his country agriculturally self-sufficient, wrote pamphlets to show farmers how to reduce their costs, enthused over a charcoal-burning automobile which he thought would make Japan independent of foreign fuel...
...golf courses; 161 City tennis courts; 250 City playgrounds; 233 miles of motor parkways. Due to his efforts, Greater New York, long backward, has probably the biggest, most elaborate recreation facilities of any U. S. city, and many of them are self-supported by moderate fees for bathing, parking, charcoal at the fireplaces provided for picnickers.* Mr. Moses has long had in mind making a public promised land of Long Island's whole south shore. Owners and renters opposed him, preferring their beaches to remain wildly beautiful, to keep city hordes from encroaching further on country privacy. Now, with...
Kindled eight hours earlier, it had been fed by three cords of oak, 500 lb. of charcoal. When flames flickered over the glowing coals and a pyrometer recorded the heat at 1,220° F., light-footed Kuda Bux took three long hoppity steps through one pit, hopped out on solid ground. Later he tried it again, again achieved only half of what Fictioneer McNamee reported...