Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake (TIME, Jan. 27). Director Daves also has a sensitive hand with atmosphere and mood: there is a beautiful outdoor scene, for instance, in which the exhausted, bandaged Bogart, like a figure in a nightmare, staggers through the cold dawn light up a prodigious flight of empty wooden steps...
...built around the merchants' quarters, known as Kitai Gorod (or Chinatown), a name picked up from the Tartars. Later, two even larger walls were built-one of white stone (which gave its lame to Bely Gorod, or White Town, where the Czar's servants lived) and a wooden wall (which gave its name to Zemlyanoi Gorod, Wooden Town, for workmen and soldiers...
...little wooden hut in Calcutta, 78-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi last week drank a glass of sweetened lime juice, thus ending a 73-hour fast (his first since 1943) in protest against communal violence. Half an hour later a dozen Hindu and Moslem youths came to beg Gandhi's forgiveness for rioting, solemnly promised not to do it again. At his bare brown feet the penitents placed big bundles containing knives, rifles, a much-used Sten gun and a dozen U.S.-made hand grenades...
...head-on crash, No. 4's steel held, but the special's wooden cars burst into a knot of wreckage. Shattered gas lights and exploding gas tanks beneath the ancient coaches spread fire the train's length, set two nearby grain elevators ablaze, leaped to an Imperial Oil Co. storage depot where 80 drums of oil took fire. Rescuers saved as many passengers as they could before the flames drove them away...
...explanation for western Canada's worst train wreck.* A preliminary report, from Ottawa's Transport Board, said that No. 4 had the right of way, that the Minaki Special had come into Dugald too fast. But no one explained why Canadian railroads are still using old gaslit, wooden hand-me-downs...