Word: oaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the island -or, by extension, his own power -and who obviously has the Greek Cypriots strongly behind him. To budge the archbishop, therefore, Greek Premier George Papadopoulos two weeks ago sent him a three-point "recommendation" so sharp that the normally benign churchman could be heard through stout oaken doors fuming against "a humiliating, unacceptable ultimatum...
...file cabinets and movable pieces of mahogany furniture called TRMs (Task Response Modules). Each TRM contains a closet, a chest of drawers, a bookcase and a built-in desk. In the larger work areas allotted to executives there are such traditional extras as upholstered chairs and round or square oaken tables...
...years and one of the nation's foremost isolationists; in Washington, D.C. A crusading country editor and partisan of 1924 Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants of death" to describe...
...Watson, you are in it, portrayed at last as the oaken heart that you really are by Colin Blakely. I am impersonated by that busker of amiable distinction, Mr. Robert Stephens...