Word: coal-black
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...puttered with twin 18-h.p. outboard motors slung on a ramshackle wood-and-iron pontoon. Behind him flowed the sun-dappled, grey-green Zambezi, where crocodiles, hippos and shoals of saber-toothed tiger-fish eternally wait their prey. There came the sound of a laboring truck engine, and brawny, coal-black Captain Nelson peered down the rutted dirt track from the south as proudly as if Emma, Lady Hamilton were being piped aboard the poop deck. It was another load of passengers for his Freedom Ferry...
...ailments), you found only a dense, featureless white substance, like the inside of a potato. Spinal meningitis did not really hurt the potato husbands who incurred it, but it gave the overworked young potato doctor (generally called Hank, sometimes Mike) a chance to say, wearily, brushing a shock of coal-black hair from his eyes, that he was sorry, he had done all he could...
...brevity of life and life-in-death. His friend, ancient Judge Clane, is a Claghorn who never made the U.S. Senate but did get to the House of Representatives. He drinks bourbon and talks Bourbon: "Imagine a future where delicate little white girls must share their desks with coal-black niggers in order to learn to read and write...
...upper or lower lid, and Shanta Rao can make either one of her eyebrows dance up her forehead while the other is kept immobile. Fourteen Eye Movements. Mangalore-born Dancer Rao functions from her painted soles through her tinkling, braceleted ankles, right up to the bejeweled crown of her coal-black hair. She began training for her art at the age of twelve, when she started practicing the 14 principal movements of the eyes every morning at 2:30 and finished her dance exercises every night at 11. At 16 she relaxed, did not start her day's work...
...encircles our ivory tower. Here surely is the function carried out. As for the most itself, its purpose is at present rather recondite. Possibly a return to the feudal system is desired. But then, the question arises as to whether President Killian would be comfortable, and, accessible, atop his coal-black charger, girdled in steel armor by the edge of the moat...