Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Musicales at Lucerne were entirely successful. The festival depended on atmosphere; two flawless performances of Mozart's Requiem Mass in the same candle-lit cathedral which had formerly resounded to Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. And Lucerne itself, a small town of cobbled streets, hand painted wooden-covered bridges, and a lake on the edge of the alps, is no minor stage setting...
...move when the Navy told them that a monstrous Thing would blast their island. Rongerik, some 100 miles to the southeast, was just as large, just as green as Bikini, and it had more coconuts and pandanus fruit. By last week Rongerik's huts had tin roofs and wooden floors; there was a big water cistern, a radio, a fine council house. But Rongerik was not home...
...mile-high sierra, the saffron moss took a little spring rain and greened. The llama, alpaca and wild vicuña prospered. Beyond the Divide, where the tributaries of the Urubamba, ancient river of the Incas, flow down their slotted valleys toward the Amazon, the oxen pulled the wooden plows across the tiny fields. It was not unusual to see as many as ten teams interminably plowing a valley acre terraced with the stones of the Inca...
...invented a trap for catching maggot-flies, wrote knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years passed, her gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features of Father Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard, crude tweed, woven from the wool of her own sheep and fastened at the back with a safety-pin-creating such an impression that a tramp, passing her once in a rainstorm, called sympathetically: "It's sad weather for the likes...
...bottle-neck of this exuberant academic era. But to him who stands aside to watch men and women queuing up for knowledge instead of nylons, the scene is full of delectation. Perhaps the show is gross deception; it may be a purely quantitative disequilibrium of supply and demand for wooden seats. Yet the illusion persists that there is a qualitative element slipped in, that a dwindling coefficient of wooden heads is a determinant in the equation...