Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three hours from the time required by the roundabout route to the north. Moscow agreed-if the trains were sealed, if they could be inspected by Red officials on entering and leaving the leased area, and if the Finns paid $50 (U.S.) for each train. The Finns installed wooden shutters on the cars, but it was not enough; the Russians held out for steel shutters. Then the Finns discovered that inspection delays were cutting the time saved to a mere half-hour. So they decided not to run the trains, after all. "Well," said one Finn, "in only 48 years...
...London, the King-Emperor became plain George VI, King of Pakistan and of India (just as he is King of Canada and other dominions beyond the seas). Workmen took down the bronze plate in Whitehall, reading "India Office," replaced it with a painted wooden sign reading "Commonwealth Relations Office...
...Charge Specifically." The technical purpose of the inquiry was to find out, if possible, why the Government had not yet-two years after the war-got any return whatever on the $18 million it invested in Howard Hughes's mammoth wooden flying boat; and why it had received only one unusable aircraft for the $22 million it sank in Hughes's XF-11 photo-reconnaissance plane. But there was another more pressing point, and Senator Brewster went rapidly...
...Central Railroad's locomotive No. 638, yelled across the cab at Webb: "Oh, Sim! The old girl's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight!" The occasion for this reminiscence: the unveiling of a monument on Casey's grave, for 47 years marked only by a wooden cross...
...study of operatic directing is not the only radical departure from traditional technique offered by the school. More fluid staging and less wooden "business" have added a lighter touch to the student performances here as well as a feeling of animation which makes an operatic spectacle more than a series of singers parading on and off the stage with little or no attention to acting...