Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lines Holding. "Among the many projects . . . was a stepped-up defensive war against termites and powder-post beetles, which undermine wooden structures such as camp buildings and war housing...
Education for Death is Walt Disney's distillation of Ziemer's survey to a nine-minute cartoon-a sort of Pinocchio in reverse. Little Hans is educated into a heiling, marching puppet, at last becomes a wooden cross marker in a vast military cemetery. Funniest bit: a Nazified fairy tale, in which the handsome, armored Prince (Hitler) wakes the rotund, snoozing Princess (Germany) with a kiss, lugs her away on a white horse to a boozy version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Most pointed bit: little Hans is punished for sympathizing with a fabled rabbit...
...exactly 25 years George Kenney has carried in his fob pocket a small pair of wooden dice. They are the oracle he invariably consults before embarking on momentous projects. In the rocking, dusty sedan he plucked them out at random. They showed six-one, a natural. He faced them toward his aide, able, beady-eyed Captain Clarence "Kip" Chase...
...every plane in operation there is a successor in the works incorporating the knowledge gained in combat around the world. The Flying Fortress' successor will have even greater bomb capacity, fire power, range and speed. > The trend is toward ever bigger bombers. On display was a mock-up (wooden dummy) of a bomber capable of carrying far larger bombs than Britain's present four-ton blockbusters...
...room. Reaching the ceiling, their great tile fronts seem to glower over the whole room. They are heated to a tremendous temperature by gas jets, and when they are opened, the narrow tile inner ovens are incandescant with heat. "Peel poles" 12 to 14 feet in length with wooden paddles on one end are the agents for placing leaves in and removing them from the ovens. In the baking of French bread the crowning touch is the use of steam jets on the hot loaves to produce a perfect crust...