Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want of a hearse, her family postponed the funeral, and for two nights and three days stood vigil by the rough-hewn wooden coffin in which Mavis lay. Last week, with a hearse and 200 friends of the bereaved gathered outside the Sithebe hut, Mavis' father stood ready, hammer in hand, to nail the coffin's lid, while Mavis' grandmother knelt down with a basin of water and washed the girl's wan face. Slowly, the body stirred and turned over, face down. Father and grandmother dropped hammer and basin and rushed from the hut. Followed...
...house, unannounced, at 11 a.m. for a spot of coffee. Jil was startled to find Susan in bed wearing blue and white pajamas. Barry, in maroon pajamas, suggested that Jil's visit was untimely. It was. After that, declared Jil, Susan came at her with bared talons, a wooden hairbrush and a lighted cigarette, finally ripped the buttons off her blouse. Said Susan later: "She made an insulting remark, and it infuriated me. I went toward her, and a wrestling match ensued . . . I'm red-haired and Irish, you know." After swearing out an assault-and-battery complaint...
Halsey, 73, snorted delightedly as he hammed up his disguised role of a distant predecessor, iron-men-and-wooden-ship Commodore John Paul Jones. After the show, Iron-Man Halsey took off his fancy duds, let down his hair to make a wooden confession: "I'll bet there was nobody in the war more scared, more often, and for as long...
...caused him to scratch his head thoughtfully, for here wasn't the glamour to which he was accustomed, the glamour of a big Saturday game with all the trappings. In the place of cheerleaders and huge concrete stadium were other members of the team sitting on the four-tiered wooden bleacher wrapped in parkas against the cold...
...first things the America undertaker changed was the old "wooden overcoat." In an age when the grave robber and the medical student were supposedly working hand in glove, "safe" coffins, made at first of iron, came in vogue. Soon there were models in zinc, glass terra cotta, papier-mâché, hydraulic cement and vulcanized rubber. The coffin torpedo, marketed in 1878, was the final answer to body snatchers-it featured a bomb that was triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease...