Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some of the old boys are still in office. Over in Honduras' capital, Tegucigalpa, sits General Carias, whose jails are still full of political prisoners. He glares at you out of a heavy, wooden face and asks: 'Why do you write such terrible things about me? Why do you do it?' Up on the hill in Managua is General Somoza, who kicks presidents in & out of office, at will. He greets you with a big smile and an abrazo and asks: 'Stanton, what can I do for you?' You talk about the political situation...
...passed them in relative quiet. With White House Physician Wallace Graham, an orchid fancier, the President clambered 1,000 feet up precipitous Corcovado Mountain behind the American Embassy. They found six orchid plants, one in bloom. Mrs. Truman and Margaret went out shopping, bought handbags, filigree jewelry and carved wooden animals. The President made a surprise appearance at the opera, drew a wild ovation...
...city fathers were working to get her in shape for a formal presentation to history. Streets were repaved, automobiles were ordered specially polished and passengers with overly bulky bundles barred from the elegant subway. Even the underground river Neglinka, got a new concrete conduit in place of the old wooden...
...Prophets. Last week, Moscow saw more gaiety than it had in years. But, as usual since the Revolution, joy moved in strictly organized channels. More than 100,000 dancers, singers and musicians had been ordered to Moscow to provide entertainment; they roamed the city in brigades, performed on huge wooden stages or at street corners, supported by sound-trucks. There were relay races around the town, boat races on the river, eight straight hours of spirited horse racing...
...city in the U.S. has a more rattletrap public transportation system than Chicago. Its streetcars, owned by four different companies (all bankrupt) and operated by a fifth, are mostly high-riding "antediluvian arks." Wooden coaches of the McKinley era still clatter around the Loop's rickety elevated lines (also operated by a bankrupt company). On streetcars and El trains alike, lurching is continual, overcrowding chronic and wrecks frequent...