Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheerless town sprawling under dusty trees. The 1,500 citizens watched them come & go incuriously; after the novelty wore off, the ships might have been loading wheat, for all the thrill there was in it. Few even knew the names of the two ships which lay at the low, wooden naval wharf one night last week with slingloads of heavy ammunition swaying aboard in the glare of masthead lights...
Noss would also discard the Western collection plate, substitute a wooden box at the door. Says he: "The Japanese do not have our matter-of-fact attitude to ward money. For example, to give a tip to a hotel maid by handing her the cold and bare coins is to show one's lack of breeding; one will wrap the money in clean white paper, and if possible put this little parcel on a tray. Perhaps the Christian people are used to it now, but lifting the offering to the sound of clinking and jingling coins is often quite...
...Portland shipyard "the air smelt of cold seawater, freshly sawed oak, steamed planking. The art of wooden shipbuilding had been forgotten at the start of the war. There was no one to teach the farmers, fishermen, service-station attendants, schoolteachers, office workers, how to shape oak for minelayers...
...noon we slid down a vertiginous slope to a peasant hut, and just as I was gulping sour milk from a wooden bowl, a rifle shot rang out outside. I ran out and beheld, some 150 yards off at the edge of the forest, two grey timber wolves tearing at the udders of a prostrate cow. As the peasant's boy fired his second bullet, the big beasts looked at us with pricked-up ears and dignifiedly trotted off into the woods...
Vatican officials made a sensational announcement last week-664 massive wooden crates, containing some of the world's greatest art works from all over Italy, now rest in Vatican vaults, comparatively safe from the war. This job of cultural salvage was the result of delicate negotiations between the Vatican and the Nazis, lasting from November 1943 to last June. Highlights among the thousands of rescued treasures...