Word: woodeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded in the waning years of their lives. The Picture History of the Boston Red Sox has all the pictures, and the folksie, barstool chatter extracts the Bostonese from personages like: Buck O'Brien, Smokey Joe Wood, Sad Sam Jones, Jumping Joe Dugan, and Yaz, to name...
Across the street, the St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church community center is falling apart. There was a fire last year at this outpost of Roslindale's new Greek-American community; the walls are wood where they should be concrete; the concrete is peeling faster than the congregation is repairing. Inside the community center basement there is a small snack shop and about 30 tables covered in light blue grease cloths. The turnout is much smaller than it should be a couple of weeks before the election. About 45 Greek-Americans are sitting at the tables, chatting uniformly in Greek...
...constantly being told of all the wonderful things Park had done for South Korea--how he had put a tiled roof on every home, and how he was protecting the country from communist invasion, Wood says...
...Wood says she encountered a similar fear among the teachers at her school. "I'd ask them about politics and they would hedge and change the subject." Lee says this watchfulness stems from the KCIA informers among fellow teachers and students...
...Wood and Lee agree that the greatest tragedy in the Koreas is the ongoing strife dividing the people. Lee adds, "Once a year, at the border, doves are released to express the yearning for unity...