Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western Europe's harvest was almost in. In the rolling green hills of northern Bavaria, tanned, pipe-smoking farmers loaded the last of the rutabagas onto their creaking, unpainted wooden carts. Parisian housewives clucked approvingly at stalls piled high with vegetables, meat, butter and cheese (although they gaped in dismay at the high prices). In Rome last week, delegates to a regional conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization met to assess the food situation in eleven European nations. After six days, they emerged with cheerful news: Europe's food crisis was over...
...blackened industrial towers, dubbed "Ataturk's minarets," jut skyward between the graceful spires of the Ottomans. The muezzin still calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee concoction of vodka and orange juice, called a "screwdriver...
...when men remembered the Maine, talked about Mr. Hearst's War, and got their hair cut for 35 cents, La Flamme's had a gas chandelier and wooden chairs. By the early '20's La Flamme's had to reckon with the crow cut, and installed electricity, new chairs, and linoleum floors...
...Netherlands have contributed more than tulip bulbs and wooden shoes to the furtherance of civilization. On our five-day cruise through the Dutch canals we found "Heineken's Bier" superior to any brand on tap at Jim Cronin's. Judging by our boat, however, the country's sea power is declining. "The "Swallow IT" was a 20-foot converted life boat with a lowerable mast which left the vessel still too high to go under bridges, an engine which required the constant attention of two deafencd men, and a stove that never worked. But the scenery and the people made...
Holland is still picturesque: large hay-boats sail by on the North Sea Canal. When we went under draw bridges the operators lowered small wooden shoes so we could put in a few cents toil. On the other hand, there are many signs of American influence. The proprietor of a very small hotel in Enkhuizen, where few Americans venture, offered me several copies of "Life" while I waited to use his phone. One Sunday we arrived at the tourist-frequented island of Marken to be serenaded by a large excursion steamer blazing the strains of "Cruising Down the River...