Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through drifts to the White Water trading post, stuffed his burlap sack with groceries, and when Trader Cal Foutz asked why he had not ridden his horse, laconically replied: "The horse didn't want to go." Another Indian, bored by the snow-bound routine in his mud-and-wood hogan, went for a horseback ride and waved casually at a passing haylift helicopter- then was nearly bombed by bales of unneeded hay and canned goods...
...Guildencrantz and Rosenstern, are Shakespeare's Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Tom Stoppard's hapless heroes. Buffeted about in the maelstrom of emotions and events at Elsinore. they are pulled out of their niches to do they know not what, nor to what purpose. Actors John Wood, Brian Murray and Paul Hecht respond like finely tuned instruments to Stoppard's inciteful prose and Derek Goldby's insightful direction...
...sunbathe. "I know," Holt suggested. "Let's go to Cheviot Beach" -a lonely, rocky stretch 21 miles from Holt's beach home, and one of the most dangerous beaches in the Portsea area. When the five arrived, the tide was at crest, and ugly chunks of wood and flotsam bobbed about on the sur face. "I had never seen it like that before," Mrs. Gillespie says. But Holt decided to go in anyway. "I know this beach like the back of my hand," he insisted. After all, he had been swimming there since 1926, when as an unmarried...
...Neurological Institute in the last year before the pill came into wide use, only two women between the ages of 20 and 40 were admitted with strokes; one was pregnant, the other case was apparently unrelated to hormone changes. Last year, Dr. Richard T. Bergeron and Dr. Ernest H. Wood report, they had nine such cases in this age range, and all but one of these patients were on the pills. Some had been taking them for years, some for only a few weeks. Dr. Monroe Cole of Wake Forest College has reported five similar cases within one year...
...that in many cases its anonymous authors, with Teutonic thoroughness, tell more about devices and I processes than most people want to know. To explain the way a safety match works, for example, they begin with a log not yet stripped of its bark. Then they relentlessly pursue the wood -carefully identified as poplar-through the entire manufacturing process. Reluctantly they abandon the description when the match has finally been ignited, the flame extinguished and the reader's interest has burned...