Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth, South Africa, and after glancing furtively around, hurried into a dingy building that had once been a garage Under his arm was a small blackboard wrapped in newspapers; in his pockets were bits of chalk; and awaiting him inside the building were 38 Negro children, sitting silent on wooden benches. Before he turned to them, however, the man first carefully locked the door. He had good reason: his is an illegal school...
...tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors, the police found an armory in which were stacked scores of bows and arrows, swords, spears, piles of slings and sacks full of stones ready for use as slingshot. Near by was an archery practice range with a wooden target in the shape of a human figure, shot full of holes. Quantities of gold and boxes of jewels, gifts of the sadhu's wealthy admirers, were seized. In an underground dungeon they found eight recently abducted women, including an 18-year-old girl kidnaped on her wedding night...
...Utah one day last week, another brave-talking killer named Don Jesse Neal was led out from Utah State Prison at sunrise to take the second best that Utah could give. He was strapped into a wooden office chair that bore 17 notches to signify that 17 other men had been shot in it.* "Do I have to wear this thing? I have nothing to be ashamed of," said Don Jesse Neal as officers fitted a black hood over his head, a 2-in., heart-shaped black target to his white shirt. "I am innocent; I have no malice against...
...labor, they bake the community's bread, man the local tavern (still bone dry), learn to turn out such dishes as chicken flakes in bird's nest, eggnog pie, toasted Brazil-nut pie and ginger biscuits. They weave bedspreads, napkins and tablecloths, produce a vast assortment of wooden furniture. Though no student graduates without a thorough grounding in the liberal arts. Berea regards its work program as an essential part of its education. Whether black or white, foreign or native, every boy or girl must put in at least ten hours a week at some sort of labor...
...Glasgow's Clydeside shipyards last week, Queen Elizabeth II swung a wooden mallet bearing the carved likeness of a Canadian beaver. The mallet tapped a knife, which cut a cord, letting the traditional bottle of champagne swing against the white hull of a new ship. Then the duly christened Empress of Britain, a 24,000-ton passenger liner built for Canadian Pacific Steamship Ltd., went slowly down the ways into the water...