Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bosses in the U.S., but he devoted himself mainly to falling asleep at banquets and opposing change. But when Denver woke to the alarm-clock jangle of World War II, and began to grow and get new industry, its 77-year-old boss suddenly seemed as outmoded as a wooden sidewalk...
...before were Hassler's Cantate Domino, a clean-cut, buoyant piece of beautiful harmonies, and Nanino's Diffusa est Gratia, a lovely tapestry of sound. Both were served up very nicely. The other, now-familiar selections by Carter, Thomson, Purcell, and Handed do not suffer from a lack of wooden or plastic concert hall confines...
...chief failure of the play, however, was in the individual performances. The general run achieved a wooden mediocrity which broke the back of any attempt to maintain the professional illusion which has characterized recent HDC and other local efforts. Others were more objectionable: Walter Frank completely misplayed Joxer, making him a large and boisterous knave instead of the small, whining rogue he is; and Robert Lubchansky was oily to an unpleasant extreme as Bentham...
...average miner lives in a company-owned, one-story, unpainted wooden shack more than 30 years old. Of 1,154 company houses surveyed, only one in ten had a bathroom with tub or shower; 75% had outdoor privies (few meeting minimum sanitary standards); less than half had piped-in water; only a third were properly screened. Well over half the towns had no sewage system or garbage collection; housewives often dumped garbage near the house or in foul streams running through the town (see cut). Though miners lack bathrooms at home, less than half the mines have showers for washing...
...paneled quiet of the Papal Cancelleria last fortnight, eager-eyed young priests leaned forward on elbows shiny from desk-reading; ascetic monks stretched thin necks from their lowered cowls. All sat raptly silent along the wainscoted wall, while speaker followed speaker at the highly-polished wooden reading stand. The occasion: a course of studies on existentialism under the auspices of the Vatican's Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas...