Word: satine
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...ripsnorting shivaree. The Old Gray Mare Band of Brownwood blatted out The Eyes of Texas. Diva May Peterson sang Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet, and the crowd stomped and whistled and let out an unearthly rebel yell. Then Miriam Amanda Ferguson, all gussied up in a black satin dress, stood up and took the oath as Governor of Texas...
...sitting on the turf in Connacht and self-consciously schooling himself to be a poet of the peasants. But as Stephen Spender once noted, the calculated lyricism of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" suggests "the image of a young man reclining on a yellow satin sofa...
...many as 100 sketches before deciding how to place a single arm in a painting. Though he turned out his share of pretentious failures, he was always the master of composition. And despite his apparent indifference to color, such canvases as The Entry into Paris could glow like satin...
...Atlanta, seven Negro clergymen and one white minister got themselves arrested by sitting-in at the city's segregated railroad Terminal Station restaurant to draw attention to 76 Negro students already jailed. The ministers satin behind bars for 24 hours, then posted bond, deciding that they could do more good outside...
...singing tantalizingly off pitch for a number of bars, or of interjecting a caressing wobble, or of suddenly, with a crack of her high-heeled foot, breaking and reshaping the beat. The image goes with the voice: in her nightclub appearances she frequently appears in a skintight, flesh-colored satin skirt and turquoise sweater with matching eyelids, and bumps and swivels her way through a repertory that is by turns sexy, solicitous, folksy and dramatic. There is not a mingy number...