Word: charcoaling
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...Wales. There were no ambiguities in the mine valley of Nye Sevan's youth; life could be sketched as a charcoal cartoon. In Tredegar, it was lived between the pits and the chapel. The visible enemy was the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co., and the audible heroes were the preachers in the chapels and the orators in the miners' lodges. Nye Bevan grew up in a time when Welsh nonconformity was moving from religion to politics, and Nye moved with the times. He easily shed the Methodist-Baptist faith of his home, because it transformed so easily into political...
...snake, a small boa constrictor, was not eaten raw but skinned and cooked over a charcoal fire. It tasted fine, although a bit gamy. The snake's head was bitten off to demonstrate that a soldier can live off the land if necessary without the aid of knives or guns...
...building, designed by Architect Ralph Rapson. looks as if Henry Moore had been doodling on it with a jigsaw. Through the holes of the outer facade peeks a structure drawn with a Mondrian ruler in a rectilinear austerity of charcoal grey, white and glass. Suspended over the stairs and lobbies are globes of light, a child's army of upside-down lollipops. The stage itself juts forward like a mammoth home plate with a blunted tip, while a rear portico of four columns supports an upper platform. Around this arena stage sweeps a C-arc of 200°. some...
...wheeler-and-dealer, a solidly built man of average height, is obviously proud of a thick, curly head of charcoal gray hair. His eyes, at a certain angle, seem also to be charcoal gray, but then they shift and become pale blue. Although he himself has become the subject of interviews and is increasingly sought as a speaker (not an expert) on a wide variety of topics, Susskind spends most of his time in New York with his wife, two daughters, and son. He hopes the boy will go to Exeter and then to you know where...
...scientific secrets. Top operative, according to Pravda, was the U.S. embassy's Russian-speaking physician. Air Force Captain Alexis Davison, 31, who was "openheartedly received as a true colleague'' by Soviet doctors. It was Davison, said the Russians, who was so preoccupied by the lamppost. The charcoal circle was a signal that information was ready to be picked up at 5-6 Pushkin Street by another embassy staffer, Richard Carl Jacob, 26, who, though only a secretary-archivist, was in reality, claimed Pravda, a graduate of a special U.S. spy school. The paper even carried "authentic...