Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this realization, he regresses into neurotic infancy and is slowly healed by the knowledge that all Israel is "his father's house." Much of the story suffers from a painful kind of self-pitying, allegory-laden archness; the dialogue sounds like weak translation; the delivery and acting are wooden. The picture degenerates into a travelogue of Palestine, full of beautifully photographed landscapes...
...seems that the ice-cube cylinder keeps the "liquid" cold, without sterilizing it with water, and that the wooden keg keeps the whole business even colder. The thing stands 15 inches high, and looks like a "piece of furniture...
...elections, and which also opposed last week's Cabinet cuts. The cuts were derided by a Communist writer in L'Humanité and by an anti-Communist writer in L'Epoque, both of whom by coincidence hit on the same sarcastic phrase: "A poultice on a wooden...
...different formations: a single-wing (balanced), a single-wing (unbalanced), the five-one, the short punt, the "T," man-in-motion, and something he calls the "300." These, plus nine basic passing plays and some "Specials," bring the total to over 170. No iron man in the days of wooden stands ever had so much to learn...
...move is an experiment both for the HAA and for Brooks House. PBH has organized the project with good-will and practicality, while the athletic directors have shown sufficiently that, with a bleak wooden expanse in sight every Saturday afternoon, they are willing to give a few free seats for children...