Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aerial bombs. Ahead and in some hills to the south, puffs of white billowed where shells and bombs found targets. In a village which had been retaken from the Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind her on the mud wall of her burned-out hut the Reds, before they were beaten back, had splashed slogans in white paint: "Fight to Nanking!", "Land for the Tillers!" and "Capture the liar Chiang alive...
Fire control equipment in the three-story structure, she said, totals two pairs of wooden fire doors, six fire extinguishers, and four safety ropes...
...Champs Elysées, the police asked the paraders to disperse. They refused. Then one of the young Communists up front yelled the old revolutionary slogan: "Aux barricades!" Demonstrators grabbed wooden trestles placed along the sidewalks to contain the crowds and laid them across the road. Iron chairs from Fouquet's and other open-air cafes were added. Paving stones were ripped up. Soon a stout barricade was built. The police did not move...
They examined the field, then planned the placing of explosive wiring beneath the midfield turf and the stationing of the detonating point under the wooden stands behind the 30-yard line...
...plotters system for firing the blast was simple. One of them, stationed behind the grandstand, was assigned to set off the charge by use of batteries. He was to be signalled by two accomplices, who were stationed in the wooden bleachers...