Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minister intoned the words of the Episcopal burial service: "I am the resurrection and the life . . . Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" An honor guard of Marine riflemen fired three sharp volleys over the plain white wooden marker: "James V. Forrestal, Lieut. U.S.N." and a Marine bugler sounded taps. In the crowd of departing mourners, hat in hand, went the man who had begun to carry on from the point where the doughty, dedicated spirit of James Forrestal had finally given...
...kids were sent up to bed as usual after dinner. A couple of friends dropped in to chat a while. After they left, Vic Reuther, a top policy strategist in the mighty C.I.O. United Auto Workers, picked up a morning paper and sat down in a straight-backed wooden chair to read. His wife Sophie lounged comfortably on a sofa a few feet away...
...first snowstorm, the reader is plunged into an atmosphere of family hatreds and tensions that recalls Playwright Eugene O'Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...
...Nein." As the train picked up speed, the city of Berlin rolled by, glittering under the bright afternoon sun. All along the route, Berliners waved and grinned up from the rubble and their potato patches. From the hard wooden seat in her compartment, Marie Goebel waved and smiled back. A white-haired old lady, Fräulein Goebel was proud as punch of being a Berliner. "In Berlin," she said, "the people are livelier. There's something about Berlin that makes you feel ten or 20 years younger...
...bizarre robbery, the case holding the carved wooden face was pried open near closing time, but the break went unnoticed by the guard until he locked up later Friday afternoon...