Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give up one of his three blankets for use in Russia. He did not tell of a new rubber-saving rule which forbids workers living within two miles of their jobs to cycle to work. He did not explain why some German planes shot down over Britain have inefficient wooden propellers...
...being made. Fact is that a home delivery service is a major organization job, and not even the "Great Stenbuck" can build one short of months. Loop newsstands suddenly refused to handle the Sunday Sun ("The Tribune did it," said Publisher Evans). And although the Sun built 2,000 wooden stands for such an emergency, it had to beat a city ordinance requiring steel stands...
Desert warfare is like naval warfare, as Winston Churchill has said. In some ways it is more like the warfare of wooden sailing ships than that of dreadnoughts. Desert war is a visual spectacle that calls for a Turner in the mood of The Burning of the Ships-with just a dash of Dali's eye for desert plains strewn with unreasonable wreckage. Herewith a composite picture of a day on last week's field, as described by various British correspondents on the spot...
...walls and piers rose block by block of solid granite, whereas many Gothic-seeming churches built in recent years have only a veneer of stone on a steel skeleton. Only steel in St. John's is in the roof beams above the vault, where the Gothic churches had wooden beams. Another old-fashioned feature: it has been built, unit after unit, only when the money was on hand. "We don't owe a penny," said proud Bishop Manning last week...
...Keep away from bird lovers, fellows, or you'll be standing on a little wooden pedestal with a label containing your full name in Latin. ... I don't want to alarm you fellows, but there are only about twenty of you alive as I write these lines, and there are more than 200 of you in American museums and in collections owned by Ivory-billed Woodpecker enthusiasts...