Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government board - Long, narrow, and wooden...
Manhattan's Federation of Crippled and Disabled (run entirely by people with orthopedic defects) gives training, wooden legs, braces and a job-placement service...
...river front of drab wooden huts had become a gaudy stage. Against the mighty backdrop of brown and grey gorges and leaping yellow waters the lean boatmen hopped and screamed like jays. Above their ragged blue trousers they wore emblazoned shirts. They had daubed yellow pigment on the heads of their boy helpers. They had oiled the keels of their long craft to maker them swifter. Now they waited for the starting signal...
...breeze stirred. The hot Georgia air in Fort Benning's Theater No. 4, Harmony Church area, was heavy, and faintly scented with sweat. At the rear of the long, wooden building a dozen nervous girls fidgeted in their best cotton dresses, a wilted handful of tired parents watched with quiet pride. Slowly and earnestly the 159 men repeated the oath of office, then marched forward one by one to receive commissions in the Army...
...bent and twisted. Stack and masts are gone. Abovedeck quarters are oil-blackened ruins. Ranges in the crew's galley are thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still see a few grey...