Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burned Up. In Tokyo, so many wooden grave markers were stolen for firewood that authorities posted signs warning of "definite punishment from heaven." The signs quickly went the way of all wood...
...talk from four to five days." When the Speaker ordered him ejected, Kanada put up the best fight of the three-day battle, holding out against the Diet guards for a full half-hour. His colleagues joined in, kicking, slapping, yelling and throwing salted beans, gumdrops and a wooden pyramided name tablet at the Speaker. Said one representative: "This is really pitiful, isn't it?" Then he began...
Starting time (3:30 a.m. from Pasadena) was concealed from the public as if the mirror's last move were a military offensive. The specially strengthened trailer, weighing 60 tons with the mirror and its wooden case, moved at five to ten miles an hour. At first the roadsides were empty, but as the news traveled, crowds began to gather. At Irvine, near Santa Ana, a star-minded school principal lined up his pupils to watch the parade pass...
Observing Man. In Belgium, the Prime Minister got honorary doctorates from Brussels and Louvain Universities, and at Louvain, twice destroyed by invading Germans, he saw students at work under temporary wooden ceilings. He remarked that the sight was a "magnificent example" of Belgian indomitability. On Armistice Day in Brussels, accompanied by Belgium's Regent Prince Charles, he laid a chrysanthemum and laurel wreath on the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier...
Tomorrow's guests, Brooks explained, will sit together in sections 52 and 53 of the wooden stands. They will be shepherded by 40 leaders, including about 20 PBH volunteers. The boys range in age from...