Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outdoor basketball and tennis courts also made way for the new gym. Harvard men could no longer climb the high wooden fence surrounding the basketball area to snicker at the female athletes in their white middles, red bloomers, and black stockings...
Before the week was out, Congress took one step toward restoring legislative calm. The House voted $150,000 to buy new chairs for the House floor. The old wooden seats, explained Capitol Physician George Calver, were so long from front to back that when a member sat back, circulation was cut off at his calves. When he sat forward to ease his legs, he tended to slump down, push his stomach up into his lungs, impairing his digestion and breathing. The new armless models would permit members to recline in healthy, upholstered comfort and, possibly, improve congressional dispositions...
...guests-many of them Congressmen-settled into the wooden stands, the Air Force cut loose with everything it had. F-80s whooshed by, skimming the ground, stunting singly and in tight formation. The spectacular eight-jet Flying Wing took off and zoomed upward, followed by the six-jet B-47, trailing clouds of smoke from 18 rocket units. In a race of bomber v. fighter the B-47 Stratojet walked away from the F-80, then was outrun by the swept-back F-86, which has already clocked a record 670.981 m.p.h. For a roaring finale the Air Force sent...
...programme" began before a rapidly-growing crowd at 2 p.m. as the Lampoon force of pink-shirted, black-helmeted militia armed with wooden rifles and backed up by a jeep bearing a beer keg set off on a demonstration march around Lowell and the Block-house...
Home Industries. In Concord, N.H., the State Planning & Development Commission hastened to squelch some ugly rumors with a press release: "... There is no connection between New Hampshire's reputation as [an] outstanding ski state and the fact that [we make] 75% of all wooden crutches...