At Chocheng, where Lebenthal has shopped for clothes for several evening events, her favorites included satin evening gowns and a black-and-white pepper tweed pantsuit, which she singled out as perfect for the office.

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The penguins are these itty-bitty black dots that pepper the ice.

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Professor Rajan Gerta, from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, said that there are many references to "ships coming with gold, and going back with 'black gold'" - pepper.

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Brocia may be worldly but he is no James Bond, with his wire framed glasses, faded black shirt, corduroys, and unruly salt-and-pepper hair.

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How much Chicago has changed in the past 20 years was shown by what happened or did not happen after the disaster in a city-centre nightclub on February 17th, when 21 young people, all of them black, died in a stampede after the club's bouncers used pepper-spray to break up a fight.

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Ms. Manning, who now owns an advertising-and-consulting firm, says she can distinguish between different types of pepper burn black versus red and different seasonings.

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To finish a stir-fry, they sprinkled on a bit of the ground spice just as if it were black or white pepper.

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