Word: charcoaling
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...entered his life, José Estrella lived on Luzon and helped his parents in the family rice paddies. Before the war he had tried to join the U.S. Army in the Philippines, but he was too small. The Japanese put him into a forced labor camp, cutting wood for charcoal. One day, 17-year-old José slipped away from a work gang, swam across a river and hid in the bamboo grass, waiting, so "I will be the one in Pozorrubio to find the Americans." Three G.I.s took him to headquarters, and after that, "I walk all around...
...most frenzied step-up of all has taken place in basketball. When Joe Lapchick played with the Celtics, the wonder pro team of the '205, scores were sometimes as low as 17-15. He remembers when "we played on slippery floors with basketballs black as charcoal from constant usage. As the season wore on, the ball would swell as seams loosened and baskets became harder to shoot...
...symbol of a national amateur trend. TIME'S Art Editor is inclined to think that it is, but the facts and figures to substantiate it are not yet available. At any rate, for the first time many newcomers exhibited their work in water color, tempera, oil, charcoal, and even pencil...
...real café criollo give me every time the Cuban style of coffee roasted with brown sugar, freshly ground and powdered and run through a cloth bag, after you stir it into boiling water heated over a charcoal fire. That is the real thing and easily worth 10? (un real), for it is well said to be as sweet as love, black as sin and hot as hell...
...when the Mojave Desert was a wooded, fertile land, teeming with game. The people who lived in it were obviously no mere nomads, but led a semi-settled life, probably living in tight little clans. No cooking had been done in the house, but near it was the charcoal and burned-bone fragments of a large campfire site, apparently shared by several families...