Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half of the bare whitewashed courtroom of Sciacca, Sicily, is taken up by three enormous cages of stout iron bars. On wooden benches inside the cages last week sat 178 scowling swarthy Sicilians, all soberly dressed. Scattered among the prisoners were a few self-conscious carabinieri fingering their white shoulder belts nervously. Entered the jury that had been deliberating for four days. "Guilty!" - in crisp official Italian, the judge pronounced sentences...
...houses in these communities were not mere hovels but substantial wooden structures--what we should call today small cottages; they were generally equipped with little pit-like cellars, which some times contained a wooden bench beside a firepace. The dwellings were grouped closely together on top of the hill, but in the middle was an open space, perhaps a place of public assembly. Around the cluster of buildings was a stout stockade of heavy wooden posts, and in this were elaborately contrived gates, with special provision for defence. At some time the inhabitants apparently decided they needed more room...
Where Washington faced ice and snow, President Hoover had to contend with a scorching sun. Twenty thousand spectators, most of them in their shirtsleeves, were packed about his wooden stand. As he spoke, perspiration dribbled down his forehead. Behind him on the platform were six Civil War veterans, including a Negro with cavalry insignia. The President's continuous gesture as he read an address which smacked of careful editing by the literary secretariat at the White House, was a series of little pats by one hand on the back of the other. Excerpts from his speech...
...thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh-holystone the decks and scrape the cable. -Richard Henry Dana Celebrated in song and story of the English-speaking navies and merchant marine is the holystone, a porous slab of sandstone used as an abrasive for keeping wooden decks snow-white.* In the U. S. Navy the holystone has been used since the Government first built ships. Formerly applied by seamen on hands and knees, holystoning is now performed with long-handled implements, mopwise. Nevertheless, there were always corners where the holystone had to be applied by hand...
...Great changes are taking place in Greenland, not only economically but also in the mode of life of the inhabitants. Igloos are gradually disappearing as the Eskimos build neat wooden houses to take their place. Flowers are being