Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please print more of Eric Johnston's faces (TIME, April 9). He is the greatest jollier in this hemisphere. . . . His face is beautiful as a heavenly angel's and when he turns on his smile it would set the heart of a wooden Indian on fire-which would ruin the Indian. Look how he slipped the leading halters on to Phil Murray and Bill Green, and made them drink too. So, for him they both swore that black was white! Anyhow, he got them to agree for once. Please do print more of his faces...
Bottoms & Tempers. For weeks the talks went round & round. At long sessions in the Kremlin's uncomfortable wooden chairs, diplomatic bottoms were as sorely tried as diplomatic tempers. But there was no explosion. Clark Kerr and Harriman simply reported home. Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt turned on the heat...
...went out to the little courtyard where the gallows stood, a stout wooden frame with several hooks and a stool on which men stood before an SS kick deprived them of their last grip on life...
Bodies Like Firewood. With other G.I. sightseers we came up from the cellar and passed into another yard fenced in by a high wooden wall. There was a pile of bodies there, stacked more or less the way I stack my firewood back home, not too carefully. There were men and some of them were naked. They looked strange...
...years later, with $30,000 and an agricultural degree in his pocket, Sam Higginbottom went back to India with modern implements and began farming 275 acres of the poorest land he could find. Discarding the surface-scratching wooden plows which Indians had used for centuries, he cut deep with tractor-drawn, modern plowshares-into amazingly rich soil. His seed sprouted into such grainfields as India had seldom seen...