Word: soot
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...unexpected opposition emerges from Ana Luisa's black maid Mercé (Rita Montaner), who has raised her selflessly since infancy; Ana Luisa believes she is an orphan. José Carlos, who has much more affection for Mercé than Ana Luisa does, tries charming her with odd endearments: "my soot cloud," "my little tar ball," and "You are a refined black lady, you were made of the finest coal where diamonds are extracted from." Her reason for fighting the betrothal is that she is Ana Luisa's mother, though she has never told the girl. Love has made Merc...
...Grimsson, 63, has witnessed Iceland's conversion from a coal-dependent economy to a nation that gets most of its heat from clean, renewable geothermal resources. "My job as a young boy was to get the coal for the house for my grandmother," he says, recalling Reykjavík's soot-black skies. "If Iceland could achieve such a radical change in one generation, enormous changes can succeed all over the world...
...Giuliani takes a similar approach to his signature issue, the fight against terrorism. Those memorable images of September 2001, Giuliani dusted with the soot of fallen buildings and atomized aircraft, give him automatic standing on this powerful topic in every corner of the country. Traveling by private jet (Gulfstream IV or better, his contract stipulates) and charging $100,000 for each speech, Giuliani reassures audiences that all America requires to prevail is confidence...
...smile, winked her good eye and plunged the pencil like a bodkin into one of her braids, shouting "Danken sie!" as she dashed off down ... Worth Street, Skaggs saw on the sign bolted to the lamppost. The single Negro among the city's lamplighters stood on his ladder wiping soot from the street sign with...
Then, however, he recalled the world's other great modern metropolis--murky, sullen, dun-colored London, which he had visited last year. It was a city that seemed to darken a little more every day from the soot belched by smokestacks and chimneys...