Word: coal-black
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...Centerville Bull," a coal-black animal with uncontrollable mating instincts, which roamed the streets "causing consternation as he smashed down fences and led cows away from their paths of rectitude. ... A Mrs. Sullivan, tiring of the depredations, decided to take matters into her own hands. She scored a bull's-eye, hitting the bull in a spot that measurably reduced his virility...
...Speaking for the American soldier: John L. Lewis, damn your coal-black soul...
Died. Dr. George Washington Carver, most famed Negro scientist; in Tuskegee, Ala. His age was uncertain: he was born of slaves about 1864. Coal-black, sad-eyed, fragile, white-polled, he spent most of his life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into...
...years since he left Ohio's Wilberforce University to become an entertainer in the speakeasies of Kansas City, massive, coal-black Jimmy Rushing has been singing blues and swinging his fat. His hot-metal tenor, edgy enough to cut a brass team, and his unexpectedly light footwork have brought him fame among the old-style gin-garden chanteurs...
...Liberians, so he had prepared a statement which he recited to himself as they rocked and roared ashore. Wet and bedraggled, he leaped out on a desolate beach on the edge of the bush, marched up to the only Liberians in sight. They were half a dozen coal-black native boatmen who had come to help the U.S. troops unload. Said Private Taylor: "Liberians! We are here to join hands and fight together until this world is free of tyrannical dictators." One of the boatmen shook hands. The rest, who had paused solemnly to listen, went back to their work...