Word: dark-brown
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Most of the human shields appeared to be poor, their shoes in tatters, their clothing threadbare and dirty. They sat on roughly cut squares of dark-brown carpeting inside a cavernous marble-paved hall decorated with giant crystal chandeliers and precious works of art. Unaccustomed to such trappings of wealth, many of the visitors were wide-eyed and speechless...
...train speeds on into Massachusetts and its fields and woods. A Zayre shopping center is deserted. Modern bungalow houses begin to appear. The sun is low now, and a girl shields her eyes as she looks at the passing train. Houses appear more frequently, dark-brown tenement houses with broken fences and rusted rainspouts. Shortly the inflexible lines of the Prudential Center appear, and the train glides into Boston's Back Bay. On the left is a series of gutted apartments, their red bricks turned black with age and filth. On the right renovated townhouses line well-swept streets. Mass...
...Carlhian, the use of a pre-cast concrete exterior will not require major changes in the plans for Mather, just a few changes in the jointing of the building will be needed. The exact finish of the concrete has not yet been determined, but it probably will be tinted dark-brown, in order to give Mather the desired dark appearance...
...Jimmy's case two weeks earlier when the young son of an Air Force colonel had injured himself by banging on a .22-cal. blank cartridge with a hammer. Some thing from the explosion had slashed through the cornea (outer covering) of Jimmy's eye, through the dark-brown iris, through the lens and the gelatinous filler behind it, until it had come to rest just short of the retina, the screen at the back of the eyeball (see diagram). Repairing the cornea was routine. But find ing the object that had made the wound -and was still...
...concentrate on their ritual of making relaxing small talk. But the Black Hawks can seldom find anything helpful to say to the wiry, whisper-voiced man whose square face is delicately crosshatched with scars. Sitting alone, Goalie Glenn Hall, 29, slowly straps on his 40 Ibs. of dark-brown leather pads and fights his regular pre-game battle with his nerves. Great drops of sweat roll down his cheeks, his chest heaves convulsively, and he may vomit. Says Hall: "There have been nights when I almost wished I was hurt so I didn't have...