Word: shinin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...color." "It made me crawl all up my backbone," says Sergeant Terence, recounting the welcome-home to Peshawar of returning troops, in Love-o'-Women-and so, too, does the reader's backbone crawl as the bagpipes scream in the dawn light and a cavalry band, "shinin' an' spic like angils," adds the rattle of its "silver kettle-dhrums" to the shrieks of the wives and the terrible notes of the Dead March, sounding gruesomely from a regiment whose colonel has been killed...
...moon is shinin...
Sooth is a tale of the occult, its hero a colored roustabout seaman fleeing the violent end predicted for him by a "conjuh-woman." He switches from ship to ship and alias to alias. But always he hears the words of the soothsayer: "Wha'-foh you big teef shinin' to the sky? How come all this heah bullet-blood runnin' outen yoh skull-pate all oveh the groun...