Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...isolated two passenger trains for two days near the roiling Columbia River. An Air Force plane dropped 1,000 Ibs. of food to the 300 stranded passengers, who were finally evacuated safely. In California, gale winds whipped bridges off their foundations and stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns...
...thousands of years, repair surgery was limited to such obvious and available materials as wood, bone and ivory-which the body is usually quick to reject. Then doctors turned to refined metals. But the current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of the materials now favored are the polymers (basically familiar molecules in unfamiliar, complex arrangements), such as nylon, Dacron and Plexiglas. But even more widely useful are the silicones,* which may be solid or as gooey as engine...
...inhabitants were long-headed people of good stature. They made sharp, beautiful weapons out of obsidian from a nearby volcano and cultivated barley, peas and primitive kinds of wheat. During the earlier centuries, they had no pottery but made graceful vessels of wood. The women carried makeup kits with polished obsidian mirrors, little baskets of rouge mixed with fat, and delicate bone sticks with thin tips still covered with green paint resembling the implements with which modern women apply mascara...
Nearly everyone has had a try at defining prosperity-from Cal Coolidge to Joseph Wood Krutch-but nothing defines it so well as the sights and sounds it produces. The surge of Christmas shoppers into the nation's stores last week assured retailers of the biggest selling season in history (up 6% over the 1963 Christmas season) to end a prosperous year. Other businessmen, some of whom have been fretting about a possible slowdown in 1965's second half, seemed affected by the holiday glow...
...Single Girl is a movie based on a bestselling book title by Helen Gurley Brown. Since the book is plotless, a collection of jiffy food recipes pressed between pages of instant indiscretion, the film makers fabricated this silly little comedy starring Natalie Wood and other celebrities old enough to know better...