Word: oaken
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...trudging up to the oaken doors and painted windows through which no light will enter for the next two weeks, the men of 14 Plympton Street this morning agreed to diminish light all over the University, and thus will not appear in public until Friday, will hide beneath bushels next week except for Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday...
MARIO SERENI, a 29-year-old Italian born lyric baritone, has been properly praised for his fine, resonant voice and roasted for wooden acting. As Lord Hepry Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor this season, he sang well, was no more notable for oaken attitudes than many other performers in an art form that pays little heed to Stanislavsky. While the Met, with Robert Merrill and Warren, has enough starring baritones, Sereni will be useful in such important feature roles as Marcello (Bohème) and Silvio (Pagliacci...
...Within hours after Ike was stricken, a group of men gathered around an oaken table in the White House to make the decisions that had to be made. Who were they? What did they do? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, cover story...
...clock, Nixon was meeting with Sherman Adams, Attorney General William Rogers, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and White House Aide Jerry Persons around what was to become the week's center of government: an oaken table in the corner of Sherman Adams' office. Adams briefed the group on the facts of the President's illness. Later, the President's doctors entered the room. Asked Nixon: "How is he?" The answer: improved...
...Cromwell's head? It looks like him-to the reddish beard and mustache and the wart over the right eyebrow. Scholars who examined it at the Royal Archaeological Institute believed it to be genuine. In Canon Wilkinson's house last week the old Roundhead rested in its oaken box. No one seemed disposed to demand burial...