Word: corale
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...coast the yacht Coral hovered, disembarked 17 prominent revolutionists, and put hurriedly out to sea again. A Cuban police boat spotted her, set out in pursuit. Among the 17 were Fausto and Guatimon Menocal, brothers of one-time President Mario Garcia Menocal, and his son Mayito. They were arrested, clapped into Cabanas Fortress. Their friends had little hope of ever seeing them again. These arrests were the clues that wily President Machado was looking for. They showed him who was back of the attempted revolution. Orders flashed out: "Get the Coral. General Mario Menocal is on board...
...John stood pale blue pilasters around the ballroom, hung it with coral pink curtains, placed above the dancers an oval blue sky with dancing white stars. Edmund Dulac did the smoking room, "Cathay Lounge." with a silver ceiling, panels of black & silver glass, accents of Chinese red lacquer and Macassar ebony...
...Well, all morning we flew low over [the] beautiful coral islands [of the San Bias Indians] You can leave and visit them but you must get away before night. The old chief won't let you stop after dark. Due to his foresight they are the only 100 per cent pure Indians...
...debating his successor last week. The tourist's first, most vivid impressions of Bermuda are white roofs and bicycles. Bermudian houses, particularly the newer ones, are pink, white, green, yellow, blue, but their roofs, even those on the Anglican Cathedral at Hamilton are uniformly of brilliant white limestone coral. Reason: there are no potable wells on the islands; all drinking water is rain water, collected in cisterns from the unpainted roofs. Fortunately it rains nearly every day or night. Roads are white, too, for the islands are made of the white coral. Above the coral foundation is a thin...
...From Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strand"-the Hymnal's measure of distance; not so TIME'S who adds many more miles to its scope; also the air and the depths of the earth...