Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stuart and Trumbull). An insatiable art lover, Philadelphia's Peale gave his children such names as Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian. He painted portraits of most of the Founding Fathers, including some 60 studies of Washington. At his avocation as jeweler, Peale also fashioned for General Washington the wooden false teeth which caused the well-known shrunken cheeks of the Stuart portraits...
...again. Cook had somehow picked up $145 in currency and a steel pick. After that jailers took away their shoes, underwear, furniture, and left them in bare cells with nothing but coveralls, woolen socks, and a blanket and toothbrush apiece. Their meals were served on paper plates, eaten with wooden spoons...
...there. We'll take off like a P-38." The policemen chuckled. The third-floor cells had tool-proof bars, and six steel doors barred the only possible route of escape. But in the hours before dawn the shoeless prisoners began unlocking doors-with keys made from a wooden spoon and a toothbrush. They walked downstairs to the basement, crawled through a window, climbed into the blue police car and "took off like a P-38," while a startled cop banged away with his revolver...
...Need more ersatz goods (wooden toys, non-ration type shoes) to fill the wide craters blasted in their inventories by the barrage of Christmas shopping...
Made of fiber, willow wood, leather, aluminum, steel or plastic, modern artificial limbs are light and adaptable: knee joints, for example, are adjustable for walking, sitting, even dancing. Artificial arms have a great variety of hand attachments. For public wear, there is usually a wooden hand, covered by a glove; for utility, a double hook arrangement to grasp small objects, and special fittings for eating, hammering, driving screws, etc. Before discharge, every man must be able to feed and dress himself...