Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many years been virtually a DeMille signature. It cannot compare with Claudette Colbert's champion dip, as Poppaea (The Sign of the Cross, 1932) in what pressagents described as $10,000 worth of grade A asses' milk; but in its crude frontier way (a cramped wooden tub) the Goddard bath is effective...
...figure on the international scene, Joseph Stalin, has written: "Words must have no relation to actions-otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good words are a mask for concealment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron...
These words, of course, had a good deal of Stalin's "wooden iron" in them. That Communist parties in various countries have been quite effectively connected was proved when French Communist Jacques Duclos fired U.S. Communist Earl Browder by writing an unfriendly article about him in Cahiers du Communisme. The meeting in Poland seemed to have decided that the mostly clandestine connection between Communist parties was not close enough. Mistakes had been made. Italian and Yugoslav Communist parties had differed over the Trieste issue. Worse, the parties in France and Italy, fat with postwar recruits, showed a certain sluggishness...
...little shipyards that line the coast of Nova Scotia, builders are busier than they have been since the days of wooden ships and iron men. Now, as 70 years ago, saws screech through oaken timbers and pine planking; middle-aged craftsmen, wielding adzes, cut keels so that they look as though they had been planed. U.S. yachtsmen and game fishermen set off the boom. They had discovered that Nova Scotians could still build stout, trim sailing craft, besides modern power boats-and build them cheap...
...building is for sportsmen. In Meteghan, Atlantic Shipyards (builders of wooden ships for two centuries) has plans for turning out small steel freighters, has already converted a wartime corvette into a freighter and passenger carrier. The biggest order to date: three 3,100-ton transports for the Argentine Navy. Never in peacetime have Nova Scotia's yards had it so good...