Word: lumberingly
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...conversation it was husky and confidential, in public debate it was as penetrating, resonant and hard to shut off as the foghorn at Montauk Light. He had the bearing of a beefy Roman emperor, a lobster-red face and white hair which he wore reached. He thought Greenpernt-its lumber yards, varnish factories, dreary flats and all-was the "garden spot of the universe" and defied the world to find "a more moral race of people" than its citizens...
Peter J. McGuinness had always liked to talk. He was born and raised in Greenpernt and left it only once, to work as a lumber inspector in the South. He soon came back explaining: "I don't like that Jim Crow they got or their goddam white crow either." As a young dock walloper he was the king of Greenpernt's waterfront. He got into a fight every night, flattened everyone he ever fought, and always leaped up on a lumber pile afterwards to give the spectators "a hot spiel...
...days later some other zealot sneaked to the Del Prado Hotel, scraped out the words once more, and added three long scratches to Rivera's portrait of himself as a boy. At that, the government stepped in, boarded up the dining room with three thicknesses of heavy lumber, and assigned it a 24-hour police guard...
First to arrive on the scene after the story was printed were the 42nd Engineers, of the U.S. Army, with enough lumber and plywood for a floor and additional material for finishing other parts of the church. Then cash contributions from the U.S. began arriving. At present they total more than $1,200, which has been turned over to George Fitch, local director of the YMCA and an old Asia hand, for conversion into yen (Koreans may not possess American money). With this more than ample sum Ye Yun Ho now plans the following projects...
...Tradition is all right," he admits, "but there must be close to 2000 board feet of lumber, in that damned thing." Purchasing this pine plus paying the carpenters and laborers required to make the Commencement deadline costs the University several thousand dollars every year...