Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, President Lyndon B. was bedded down with it - or something suspiciously resembling it. In Chicago, Mayor Richard J. Daley was just recovering from it. In Hollywood, Actress Natalie Wood was felled by it while shooting a $3,000,000 film. In Seattle, a pair of twin baby orangutans were placed in isolation when they came down with its symptoms. With jet-age speed A2-Hong Kong-68, more commonly known as "Hong Kong flu," spanned the nation last week, respecting neither station nor species...
...emphasize the changing character of his regime, Premier George Papadopoulos last week granted his first interview in many months to a foreign newsman. Over cups of thick Turkish coffee in his wood-paneled office in Athens, Papadopoulos told TIME'S Wilton Wynn of his desire to reestablish parliamentary government in Greece, reaffirmed his allegiance to King Constantine and declared his own willingness to step down from power. Self-confident and relaxed, the Premier avoided any reference to the seamier side of his army-backed regime, which still holds 1,800 Greeks in prison camps in the Aegean islands...
...soon be in a position not simply to imitate Harvard houses, but to compete with them and cooperate with them. Since Harvard's houses seems likely to remain in one form another, isn't this new source of influence one to be strengthened and encouraged? Peter and Ann Wood...
After the 1920 Republican Convention, which chose him over two abler candidates, Major General Leonard Wood and Illinois Governor Frank O. Lowden, Harding became the compromise candidate to end all compromises. He was, at best, the man nobody really hated-the legendary two-o'clock-in-the-morning choice of political bosses horse-trading in a smoke-filled room...
Shapes can be freer in plastic. One designer actually refused to make straight-lined furniture in plastic because the material curves so readily and gracefully. This is radically different from wood, which requires very complicated processes before it will curve into a Thonet chair...