Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Division of Labor. At the Red Scarf factory, students work according to a "rational division of labor." Children seven to nine years old, the party press notes, generally like to collect nails and bits of wood and carry them in their pockets. This interest is channeled "into the field of significant labor activity" by sending the children outside the factory for two hours each day "to pick iron, scraps, dig and sift ore, gather wood and collect broken bits of earthenware." Students 14 and 15 years old "do the simple jobs of making molds, preparing materials, taking care of machinery...
When Chuck Wood Jr., 17, first caught sight of the Aberdeen-Angus calf on his father's Iowa farm 14 months ago, his practiced eye told him it had the build of a potential champ. He exclaimed "Holy cow!" The calf, duly named Holy Cow, was given to Wood to care for. Last week, Holy Cow, grown to a 925-lb. steer, won the grand championship in the Chicago International Livestock Exposition. Wood collected $1,010 in prize money, plus $23,125 from Restaurant Owner Howard Johnson Jr. who bought the steer at auction and will...
Along with Skinner, Wood will start a pair of 6 ft., 1 in. forwards, Jim Thomas and Lamar Frazier. Dave Hohl and co-captain Dick Cadigan will open at guard...
Cardinal coach John Wood said yesterday that his team is in good physical shape, with co-captain Dick Winner the only man on the injured list. He added that his squad "shot well, rebounded well, in fact played an excellent all-around game against Clark...
...over his plan to swallow Berlin, after all the buildup and the bluster, Nikita Khrushchev called the first press conference of his premiership. Looking relaxed and chipper, and sporting a glistening gold peace-dove emblem in his lapel, the Soviet boss told 250 reporters in the wood-paneled oval room of the Kremlin's Council of Ministers Building that the notes his government had just sent the U.S., Britain and France were not in "the form of an ultimatum." But, he said over and over, the Soviet Union regards West Berlin as "a cancerous tumor," and sees "no other...