Word: charcoaling
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Frank, hands in pockets of charcoal corduroy pants, an old dark sweater and shirt, dark work-shoes of worn leather, short, dark-complexioned with an eight o'clock shadow, thinning but bushy black hair, with some wrinkles on his forehead after 43 years of facing the desperate moments head on, eyes sad, calm, laughing-he sidles up to the front and leans like a cowboy against the lectern. He crosses his feet...
There will also be some secondary effects from the mangrove destruction. Villagers in the south relied on the mangroves as a major source of wood for fuel and charcoal. Mangrove-lined waterways provide food and nursing grounds for fish and crustaceans, too. Mangroves are active photosynthesizers and fix carbon into an organic form the fish can use. The HAC was unable to estimate the magnitude of this function but suggested that its impact on the fishing industry deserved study...
...great deficiency of Trumpet is its illustrations. The association of Garth Williams' concise, delicate ink drawings with White's prose is too strong to break. Although Edward Frascino's charcoal drawings are often well done, they don't have the emotional impact of, say, Williams' picture of the little girl Fern with the piglet Wilbur in her arms as she feeds him from a baby bottle...
...horror stories give me nightmares, and what I see in nightmares are faces. Mostly of kids. One is the face of a kid who is rolling over and over on the ground, trying to extinguish the burning napalm, his flesh turning to charcoal underneath...
...horror stories give me night-mares, and what I see in nightmares are faces. Mostly of kids. One is the face of a kid who is rolling over and over on the ground, trying to extinguish the burning napalm, his flesh turning to charcoal underneath...