Word: charcoaling
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...mountains, mourning meant memorial meetings and work. Long lines of students one day walked sobbing along the main street of Kweilin with white paper wreaths for Chairman Mao. They were followed by peasants hauling grass and fodder on bamboo yokes, while motorized carts filled with building stones and charcoal lined the road. Construction is the watchword...
What they had was a major discovery-the world's only group of mural sketches by Michelangelo Buonarroti, more than 50 large drawings, done in charcoal on the rough plaster of the walls and inadvertently protected by later whitewashing against age, flaking and the 1966 flood. After several months of restoration, the discovery is being exhibited in Florence this week...
Taxing Subtleties. The art of making steel reached its peak in Japan before the 16th century. Our present technology can dump men on the moon, but it cannot match the crystalline structure, hardness, flexibility and exquisite surface pattern of these ancient blades made in charcoal forges. Compared to Nippon-tō, the swords of Europe are kitchen cutlery...
Then it was Bailey's turn. Wearing a charcoal gray suit, the banty, 5 ft. 7¾ in. ex-Marine flyer walked to the lectern, folded his arms, leaned toward the jury and, without glancing at his notes, delivered a calm, 30-minute summary of his case. There would be no denial that Patty was in the bank, he said, but he urged the jury to note that "perhaps for the first time in the history of bank robbery, a robber was directed to identify herself in the midst of the act." Patty, his argument ran, was a normal, marriage-bound...
William E. Colby had just returned from Richard Welch's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. Still dressed in a somber charcoal gray pin-stripe suit and dark tie, the CIA Director held a 90-minute interview with TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott. Colby's successor-designate, George Bush, is expected to be confirmed by the Senate shortly after Congress reconvenes next week. Soon after that Colby will retire, ending a quarter-century in the CIA. In the excerpts, Colby gives his personal views on a number of issues involving the record of the CIA and its proper role...