Word: emerald
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...woods. But the U.S. diplomat could not keep his eyes off the tubby Nazi's hands, which were "shaped like the digging paws of a badger." On his right hand Göring wore an enormous ring set with six huge diamonds; on his left he wore an emerald at least an inch square. Göring's hands were presumably more eloquent of German intentions than anything Welles heard either at Karinhall or in Berlin...
...south, another Chinese army, in a surprise move, crossed the milewide, emerald-green Salween on a 130-mile front and lunged west this week toward General Joseph Stilwell's India-based troops, now slowly advancing across north Burma...
...modern opera to the lobster-supper diva of musical fable is exuberant, 42-year-old Grace Moore. Like the Farrars and Jeritzas of the past, she has managed to be both a voice and a glamor girl. She is perhaps the only opera singer in the U.S. who receives emerald necklaces as casual presents from admirers, and certainly the only one who has gone on tour in a Hispano-Suiza complete with French maid and chauffeur...
Britain's mood is not the lonely desperation of 1940. The emerald isle is a khakied isle, jammed with American men, planes, weapons; jammed, too (as Americans forget), with Britons who never left their bombed and war-worn home, with many others who left, fought far afield, and are briefly home again to fight on the climactic field of Europe...
Commissioner Huxtable knew the legends. He gathered some old men of the tribe who had known the king and set out by car. Ginyilitshe led them through the Lubimbi Valley, an unfriendly place of salt pans, hot springs and emerald rushes, to the cave. Huxtable saw that a stone had indeed been rolled from the mouth of the cave, that intruders had left footprints. He inspected the cave, then called forward the old men of the tribe, standing silent and afraid in this place of spirits. Would they not tell him, now, how Lobengula had died...