Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday thousands of people went to the cemetery to look through rows of unidentified bodies lying in plain wooden coffins. They were searching for a missing brother or son among the 25,000 dead in Budapest's six weeks of revolt...
...foreign policy slipped unobtrusively into the White House for top-secret meetings. Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. was in and out of the President's office all day; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Arthur Radford hurried in through a side door, his aides carrying wooden easels and maps and charts covered with plastic blankets. On hand for two of the secret meetings was Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, along with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss. As the warm day's light began to fade across the trim White House lawns outside...
...m.p.h., operating a 1½-gallon pressure water tank that squirts water 25 ft. The Charles Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co. has an electric locomotive, "The Yardbird" ($225), that can transport a young engineer from room to room on an eight-inch gauge track. F.A.O. Schwarz has a wooden stockade ($75) with corner peephole boxes through which young pioneers can see the "attacking enemy...
...really there. At the top there was a door. Shaking in his bones, the little boy pushed. The door creaked. Marcelino's heart pounded; his jaw dropped as he stood and stared up at The Big Man. who seemed to be hanging on a wooden cross. There were nails in his hands and feet, and lines of pain in his face. All at once Marcelino was afraid no longer. "You look hungry." he said. "Wait, I'll be back." Marcelino ran down to the kitchen, stole a slice of bread, ran back to the upper room and held...
Outside, a few less ravenous Council members observed that Stone, whom one compared to a New England bowsprit, "wooden, but enterprising," should have been forced to resign. Stone himself admitted that the probable reason for his going against the UN was his commitment to WUS. The WUS man said no commitment had been made. It seemed, rather, a commitment to one man's pride...