Word: wood
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...which the student must participate, and in which he or she is responsible for his or her own performance. Maybe I'm reading too much into a world, but in the context of many remarks and statements I have heard and read lately, I don't think so. Susan Wood Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
...Weiner managed to place second in the men's giant slalom in the first day of racing, but had to drop out of competition because of illness. David Wood brought home a personal-best fifth place finish in the giant slalom...
Scobee carried his fascination with flying to his home in suburban Houston, where he lived with his wife June and their two children. He and Astronaut James van Hoften built a two-seat, open-cockpit Starduster plane and flew it cross-country. The craft, made of wood and fabric, had no radio. Reflecting on this convergence of his work and leisure pursuits, Scobee once observed, "You know, it's a real crime to be paid for a job that I have so much fun doing." For all his accomplishments in the skies, however, Scobee was scrupulously modest. "He just wasn...
Growing up on his family's 14-acre farm outside Beaufort, N.C., across the road from the local airport, Michael Smith fell in love with flying. When he was nine or ten, he built a large model airplane of wood and hung it in the yard to use as a swing. Later he earned money for flying lessons by selling chickens and eggs, and soloed in a single-engine Aeronca on his 16th birthday...
Magnificently captured by Shakespearian actor John Wood, most familiar to recent movie-going audiences as the elusive Dr. Stephen Falken in War Games, Northumberland is every inch the cold-hearted villain, complete with gaunt complexion, beady eyes and extended five o'clock shadow. The first of the principal actors to appear on-screen, we see him directly after the camera shows the ax being lowered over the head of King Edward's former favorite, the Duke of Somerset. After hearing of Somerset's death, Northumberland nestles back into his chair and with an admirable coolness, casually inquires...