Word: plumbago
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...Road, a well-tailored neighborhood just outside the city limits of Phoenix. Ariz. They owned their home, a rambling ranch house trimmed with apple-green cement blocks; they were surrounded by tasteful but not lavish trappings-Louis XIV-style furniture, a collection of miniature ivory elephants, a lantana-and-plumbago hedge planted and tended by Bill Nelson himself...
Last week another Italian vessel came to grief on the Goodwins: the 2,327-ton freighter Silvia Onorato, carrying 2,933 tons of plumbago (graphite). When a lifeboat came through mountainous seas to take off the crew, bushy-browed Captain Francesco Ruocco cried: "Ship go, me go. . . . This ship she mean everything to me and to my bella...
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