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Word: woodenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese left their wretched, paper-thin houses and their half-ruined factories; chattering with delight, they roamed across the broad lawns of their public gardens to view the flowers of spring. City folk flocked to the beaches. Up & down the jagged, black-sanded coast, fishermen pushed off their squat wooden boats. Farmers tirelessly slushed through their rice fields as they had always done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...most important Communist move was a rapid eastward thrust toward the coast, to cut the Shanghai-Canton railroad and encircle Shanghai itself. Another Red force, farther north, was thrusting toward Hangchow, 121 miles from Shanghai. The capture of Shanghai itself seemed near. Its main defense was a pathetic wooden fence, 35 miles long, fashioned from 10-foot stakes (originally UNRRA lumber). In the Shanghai-Hangchow area, 350,000 Nationalist troops were being pressed in a pocket against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Swift Disaster | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Wooden Guns. Exact figures on Europe's military establishment were technically secret. But it was no secret to anyone that the Western European powers between them could put no more than a dozen poorly equipped, poorly organized combat divisions into the field, virtually bare of armor and effective air support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: The Ramparts | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Germany and Austria, and the overseas territories, including war-torn Indo-China. Stern, tireless General de Lattre de Tassigny had struggled hard to reorganize the French army and instill into it a new self-respect. The fact remained that at home it still trained with wooden guns and that even with overseas forces it could put in the field only five to nine ill-equipped combat divisions. France had about 1,000 planes, all of them worthless for combat service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: The Ramparts | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...long and four miles wide, with clearly defined shores and what look like beaches. But, except for a short time after a rare desert rain, the lake has no water. Its smooth and precisely level surface is cement-hard dark-red mud. Its one surface craft is a weathered wooden dummy battleship, built long ago as a bomber target. Above it, in the bright desert sky, thunder the real craft of Muroc Dry Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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