Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color TVs, and even for picture frames. But the weathered wood is also finding its way into supermarkets, restaurants, executive suites and department stores...
...arrangements, many of which are almost as extraordinary as his voice. Often, his arrangement of another's song amounted to a re-writing. This is true of "Try a Little Tenderness," "You Send Me," and "Tell It Like It Is." His version of "Knock on Wood," though it retains almost nothing of the great Eddie Floyd original, is undoubtedly the definitive version of that song. His arrangements are infinitely varied. Before one understands the arrangement of "Tell It Like It Is," recorded on his joint album with Carla Thomas, it sounds as though it is being played at the wrong...
...Chopping Wood...
Penn's Bill Turner beat Higgins at 18:30 to make the score 3-1 at the end of the first period, but from then on Harvard riddled the Penn nets with the regularity (and the inspiration) of someone chopping wood...
...women had been conducting experiments with methanol, a highly flammable wood alcohol. Officials said the explosion resulted "apparently because of a spark of static electricity" when the women were pouring the methanol from one container to another...