Sentence:  Once , Andrus walked by it , hastily scanned the bold <WSD>black</WSD> headline and the five column lead of the article ( by Duane Bosch , staff correspondent - age not given ) , and muttered : `` We a buncha national celebrities '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light