Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at the factory, Nijverdal's union leaders felt the same way. "Before help came last spring," said Cornelius Kalkhoven, company representative of the Christian National Federation of Trade Unions, "you could feel the tension through your wooden shoes." Said the Catholic union's young Hendrik Grondman: "Our men will never go back to the peat bogs...
Gershwin at Half-Stance. The orchestra members took the jolts and hard wooden seats good-naturedly, joked as they steered clear of roadside minefields, gazed across 2½ miles of sand at Egypt's main base, Gaza...
...Time for Luxury." On top of the hill we shook hands with General Li Mi in front of his headquarters-a crude lean-to fashioned out of wooden poles covered with kaoliang stalks. He waved us to a rock ledge in front of the lean-to and said, with a grin, "Come sit with me on my sofa." General Li apologized for the roughness of his quarters. "Every day I move," he said. "We have no time for luxury." Li wore a padded private's uniform and a private's winter helmet with the earflaps drawn...
...first light of dawn, soldiers carrying huge bowls of steaming rice cautiously picked their way down the trench-laced narrow streets. A donkey hitched to an ancient wooden-wheeled cart, loaded with shining black 105 mm. shell cases, munched slowly...
...your private life, life can be beautiful-after a fashion. In its role of vulgar Lady Bountiful, radio is showering quiz-answering Americans from its loudspeaking horn of plenty. It supervises their marriages and honeymoons, builds houses for them, gets them jobs-even fixes their teeth or buys them wooden legs...