Built by the mining magnate Ernest Oppenheimer above the vast, and seemingly limitless, riches underground, Welkom was a homestead for South Africa's cash-flush white miners.
The kitchen's dual nature -- both ruthlessly efficient and inviting -- is reflected in the materials: steel counters and flush white cabinetry (no knobs), contrasted with warm mahogany-stained floors and a wall of bookshelves.
"There was so much water moving, and so much turbulence, that you could have had a worst-case scenario of a guy getting flushed through the white water and you simply might have never found him," Baker said.
The undulating deep green leaves of S. trinervia are a fantastic foil to its green-flushed white flowers.
The gills are strongly intervenose (possessing cross-veins), moderately broad (5 7 mm), white or grayish white, soon flushed with pale pink, with even edges.
You see those lilies over there – Lilium regale, with their white trumpets flushed with purple on the outside and a fragrance that hangs in the warm summer air?
The stem is white or flushed pale brown, smooth on the outside, but hollow with some chambers inside.
Elsewhere the Times marveled at the "ingenuity" of a Greenwich Village resident who flushed the toilet with white Zinfandel when the water ran out ("an easy decision... Never would have let the cabernet go down").
He said he began scrutinizing the bureau in 1992 after the shootout at Ruby Ridge in Idaho in which a woman originally from Iowa and her 14-year-old son were killed when agents tried to flush out a white separatist.
In flashes of gold, brown and white, three owls flushed.
But he himself stood gamely, his polo shirt untucked, looking flushed beneath his anemone of white hair.
