Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VICHY--Two hundred of the most prominent American expatriates in Paris have been seized by the Germans and carried off to crude wooden barracks in the Compiegne Forest to be held as hostages for the good treatment of German nationals in the United States, it was learned tonight...
...such a quake hits them again, it will certainly upset the Mikado's apple cart," Landsberg said. "Most of the dwellings in Tokyo and Yokohoma are flimsy, wooden things. It would take months of concentrated bombing to equal that damage inflicted by a sudden release of the tremendous energy stored in the bowels of the earth...
...side-wheeler Brinckerhoff, veteran of 41 years on the Hudson River, carried the quiet group through the river-damp darkness, across the stream and back. Its searchlight picked out Poughkeepsie's Main Street. Its steel-hooped sides girded against the groaning wooden racks. The Poughkeepsie ferry, tarnation old, almost as old as the nation (it had crisscrossed the Hudson since 1798), had made its last...
...great shakes as a play-at times rhetorical, at moments wooden, wobbly at the start, dawdling at the end-In Time to Come is yet a vivid stage document. At least twice-when the high-minded Wilson comes up against the hardheaded Lloyd George and the cynical Clemenceau, and when, back in Washington, he faces the rocklike hostility of Senator Lodge-the play crackles with verbal drama. In its treatment of issues and men it does not falsify, seldom takes sides. If it turns Wilson (Richard Gaines) into something of a hero for what he tried to do, it never...
...tiny flotilla moved in battle line toward the still-sleeping village of St. Pierre, a lone bristle-bearded Breton sailor ran down to the quai to greet it, his wooden sabots clattering and slipping on the icy streets. In the still morning air the whole harbor could hear him bilingually swearing: "Pétain, le sacre bleu cochon, le old goat!" . . . With trembling hands he lashed the first corvette line to a bollard. "Vive De Gaulle," he shouted. "At last I can say it. Vive De Gaulle...