shiner
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With a welt near his ear and a shiner under one eye, umpire Junior Valentine worked the plate right on schedule.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
The best we can tell, a 19-year-old African American shoe shiner named Dick Rowland tripped as he entered the elevator in the Drexel Building.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
For decades, white and black Tulsans refused to talk about the events of May 31, 1921, when a black man who worked as a shoe shiner was accused of assaulting a white woman.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2020
Crappie are fair to slow on mostly jigs or live shiner.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2019
The shiner had been a whole lot bigger and blacker a couple of days earlier, he said.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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