Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...80th ("Blue Ridge,") Infantry Division got to the top, there was little need to fight. The place was strewn with enemy dead and smashed guns. Some anti-aircraft guns were captured intact with their crews. Among the prisoners was one man with a glass eye, one with a wooden leg, two with self-inflicted wounds...
Looking for clews, the police found a large wooden chest. Then a screen of wartime secrecy dropped down around the investigation, with the local U.S. G-men showing interest. In the chest were German and Japanese propaganda, elaborate maps, photos of important U.S. bridges, and a photo of one of the victims in the company of a "Japanese imperial personage." There was also a Japanese flag with insignia which suggested that the notorious Black Dragon Society might reach as far as Peru...
Welles took it handsomely, as do most of McCarthy's targets, who are invariably delighted to be ribbed by such a supereminence. In his wooden insouciance...
...sleeping on an iron cot in a flimsy wooden house, something like a run-down American beach cottage, in the town of Tacloban. Several correspondents were staying there. Asahel ("Ace") Bush of the Associated Press and John Terry of the Chicago Daily News were in one room, Stanley Gunn of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Clete Roberts of the Blue Network and I in another, John Dowling of the Chicago Sun in a third...
...stuff had gone flashing through those frail wooden walls like buckshot through a berry crate. Some of it had even sliced through the walls and partitions and come out on the far side. The mosquito net above my bed was ripped in a dozen places...