Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he reached the wooden bridge over muddy Apalachee creek, Harrison jammed on the brakes. A car blocked the bridge. A band of 20 white men, unmasked, armed with pistols and shotguns, moved silently out of the roadblock...
...pilgrims to proffer prayers and roses. No one thought of cheering "Byrnes the Just." Whatever the Peace of Paris might bring, it would not cause the corrosive disillusionment which came in the wake of 1919's extravagant hopes. On the conference's opening day, police set up wooden barricades near the Luxembourg Palace to keep the crowds back-but there were no crowds. At lunchtime, the Prefect of Police personally inspected the whole palace to make sure that it contained no bombs. Then the delegates began to file past the honor guard's drawn swords (Molotov...
Most of the statues, paintings and tapestries have not been seen in six years; many have never before been exhibited in a museum. Standout in the priceless collection is the famed 11th Century Essen Madonna, a 30-inch, gold-covered wooden statue that spent the war years in a damp tunnel. Now, in the 16th Century castle which Goebbels commandeered as a summer home, the wide-eyed Madonna sits serene in a gilded bathroom...
They bought from fisherwomen in Bedouin-like headdresses the Portuguese equivalent of hot dogs - grilled sardines. But the biggest crowds milled, with wistful eyes, around the U.S. pavilion, where wooden doll exhibits depicted typical scenes of life in the fabled, incredibly distant land of freedom...
...whole mob, looking like De Gaulle's Paris Victory parade, moved slowly through the dark-wooden-soled shoes clonking on the cobblestones, voices jabbering in German and English. Shadows pulled and clawed at the clothes and arms of the Americans. Out of the dark came a ceaseless flow of questions. Have you any cigarets? We like Americans. When will the Americans fight the Russians? Is it true we get better rations than the American zone? Do you know my uncle in America...