Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Galapagos Islands. After the yanquis left, hard times came back. He called on the Virgin to help him win the national lottery, but no such miracle took place. Said Sanchez: "From that day I felt in my heart hate and vengeance for the Virgin." He determined to steal the wooden image, and burn...
Around a crude wooden table in an austere schoolroom sat nine men: an Englishman, a Dutchman, an Indian, a Norwegian, a Czech, two Germans, and two Americans. Their debate was on a major matter: What should the Protestant churches do about the Communist attack on religious freedom in Eastern Europe? (For the Vatican's stand on the same question, see INTERNATIONAL...
...pelok octave and played on bronze percussion instruments-which has the simple gravity of a Bach sarabande. A Sundanese love lament called Drizzling Rain, accompanied on a zither, carries its grief through a long series of delicate ornamentations. An ancient song of the Batak hill people, accompanied by a wooden xylophone and split cymbal, is strikingly like the melancholy music of Provencal shepherds...
Burned Up. In Santa Monica, Calif., police set up new, all-metal "No Fires Allowed" beach signs, explained that too many picnickers had used the old wooden signs for kindling...
With touring in winter and running a camp in summer, what time is left for family life? "But this is family life!" Mrs. Trapp exclaims. "Martina paints and Agathe makes greeting cards and Maria does wooden candlesticks and Werner farms and we all sing together-we do things together, and that is real family life. That is what is wrong with everybody. They don't do things; they buy them at the five-&-ten. Everywhere we go, I try to show people how to do things together, in the family, which is the way God meant people to live...