Word: orangewood
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...Republican National Convention, decided Russell Baker of the New York Times, had been "planned weeks in advance by six bores and a sadist." How else would you explain, asked Baker, such yawn-inducing acts as the "presentation of the orangewood gavel to the chairman of the Republican National Committee by O. D. Huff Jr., chairman of the Florida Citrus Commission," or Tony Martin singing a "few hit tunes of the Alf Landon...
Soap sculpture is popular because it is easy and cheap (only requisites: a bar of soap, a kitchen paring knife, an orangewood stick, a steady hand). Many a serious sculptor carves his small-scale models in soap, and its alabastery translucence makes it useful for window display and advertising photographs. One drawback: its fragility. Procter & Gamble sends the winning pieces on a year's tour of schools, stores and clubs. Before the tour's end, half the pieces are broken. Too fragile even to set out on this year's tour is a prizewinning cow. She lost...
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