Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUL OF WOOD by Jakov Lind. 190 pages. Grove...
...Lima presidential palace, Belaúnde has turned the ornate, wood-paneled state dining room into a wall-to-wall showcase for his housing, road and irrigation projects. Huge maps cover the walls, and dozens of scale-model projects are lined up neatly on tables. "This one will open in July," he says, pointing to a housing project. "We've just broken ground on that one over there." He turns to the maps with their probing lines thrusting east from the Pacific. "You know," he mutters, putting his finger on a village deep in the towering Andes, "that used...
...process the hydrogen gives up electrons that flow out of the cell as electric current. But hydrogen is a touchy, expensive fuel, and since it is a very light gas, only small amounts can be stored in large, un wieldy pressure tanks. The Esso cell burns familiar methanol (wood alcohol) and gets its oxygen free, out of ordinary...
Pince-nez aquiver on his nose, the elegant banker leaned across the wood-inlaid desk in his Zurich office last week and complained: "We have been called Shylocks, gnomes, sinister manipulators -even greedy thieves. These campaigns really wound us. At times it makes one melancholy...
...book ends as the Englishman learns of Zorba's death. In the film both of them rediscover life. Their mine has failed, and their projects for hauling down wood ended in disaster. The women they have made love to are dead. The two men join hands and dance...