Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landing Ships, Medium) came alongside Fort Drum pirate fashion. While scow-like LCVPs pushed to hold it against the concrete portside, soldiers raced across a wooden ramp, dropped like a Roman drawbridge from the LSM's superstructure to the fort's topside. The Japs had time for only a few shots; they wounded a sailor in the neck, a soldier in the hand and nicked the brow of the task force's dashing commander, Colonel Robert H. Soule. Then, while the soldiers covered all ports, the LCM pumped 1,800 gallons of gasoline and oil into...
Premier Nicholas Plastiras, the strong man of shaky Greece, found his strength as futile as the walls of Troy. Ulyssean guile, as effective as in the days of the wooden horse, turned him out of office...
...Frank S. Persons II, Bastrop, La.: Church people "are worshipers of archaic patterns of thought. We have erected temples of the mind and enthroned on their altars certain banded-down ideas which we are as afraid to displace as any African tribesman his equally homemade and static wooden gods...
...neighborhood toughs greeted the new vicar of St. Luke's Episcopal Chapel with sneering hostility. They tried to frighten him off the sidewalks with raucous taunts about his celibacy. They hooted at the black cassock and big wooden cross he always wore as a member of the Society of Oblates of Mount Calvary. They sneaked into the parish house when his back was turned and smashed up the furniture. But tall, handsome Reverend Edward Henry Schlueter (rhymes with Peter) kept his stubborn smile and quietly got on with the job: bringing back to life his broken-down appendage...
When it does play under the Big Top again, the circus will be as safe as it can be made-not fireproof, but "flameproofed." Roughly, this means that the 75,000 yards of canvas, the 41 tents and the wooden parts of the folding grandstands can still catch fire, but that flames cannot spread beyond the area of the fire. After a lot of thought, the circus decided not to yank its Clown Fire House act, feeling "it would be more conspicuous by its absence...