Word: clapboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago the Illinois State Parks Division temporarily closed down one of Springfield's proudest possessions, the two-story clapboard house in which Abraham Lincoln lived from 1844 to 1861. The time had come when the Lincoln house was to be rendered "authentic in every detail...
...where Ike rode slowly down the main street in a green Chrysler convertible through crowds that pushed out to shake his hand. In the town's East Side, just across the Missouri-Kansas-Texas R.R. tracks, the motorcade stopped before a cheap, two-story, white clapboard house, whose front gate bears the sign "Eisenhower's Birthplace." At Forest Park, he made a brief, nostalgic talk about his homecoming...
...still had ahead of him his formal plunge into partisan arguments and specific debates, but the 5,000 Kansans who clustered in the open field by the clapboard house knew the level and temper of his character. In simple, unmistakable words, the man had described his philosophical foundations. Now the candidate could go ahead...
...night after night to verify troublesome details. On his jaunts, Oneto keeps an eye peeled for old-fashioned houses, especially those with plenty of gingerbread: "I'm only interested in San Francisco architecture before the [1906] fire." A good example of Oneto's preference is the turreted clapboard mansion in Circa 1880. "I liked the angular shadows the light made, and the way it hit the bay window...
...during the war. Today one in every ten miners is forced to leave his family in some other part of Germany, while he lives in a barn or an old air-raid shelter near the pits. At the Zollverein mine, near Essen, 1,500 homeless miners live in bleak, clapboard cabins sprawling in the shadow of the pithead. The turnover among them is immense. "They don't budge in winter," said a mine official. "But when the spring comes round, you see a look in their eye, and one day they're gone...