Word: wood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a vacancy occurs in a small, wood-framed building owned by the University, HRE has given junior and senior faculty members preference in purchasing the house. If after four weeks, no professor makes a bid, the house is offered to tenants and then placed on the open market...
...have several pieces of the log in the Kirkland basement," said Kirkland House Master Donald H. Pfister, adding that "it'll probably be until the summer" before the wood will be dry enough to work with. Pfister said the wood will probably become a bench, althouth he didn't know where it would be put or who would make...
...skies. In the hillside barrio of Mameyes, an impoverished community of more than 1,500 residents above the south-coast industrial city of Ponce (pop. 250,000), the downpour caused little of the flooding that afflicted lower-lying areas of the island. The 30 degrees slope on which Mameyes' wood and corrugated-tin shanties were built provided a natural sluice--first for the falling rain and then, tragically, for much of the settlement...
Along with the dawn-to-dusk shoreline revelry, there is some serious rowing. Andy Sudduth, America's premier single sculler, will race. So will Tiff Wood and several past U.S. Olympic boats...
...Tiff Wood: the unluckiest man in rowing. After rowing with the Rude and Smooth, Wood was selected as the spare on the 1976 Olympic team, but never rowed a stroke. He was captain of the 1980 men's team, but the U.S. boycott cost him that chance. He lost out in his bid to become the single sculler for the 1984 Olympic team, and ended up as the spare again...