Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Briton, Captain Gerald Selby Lewis Griffiths, 43, was court-martialed in a wooden hut in the heart of the Mau Mau badlands. He was accused of murdering a captured Negro forest worker suspected of belonging to Mau Mau, and of ordering his African rifleman to "shoot anyone you want, so long as he is black." Griffiths told the court that he kept a Scoreboard in his officers' mess, recording the number of Mau Mau kills and captures. His company was aiming to raise its total to 50 kills, and to encourage his men he offered them a five...
...million peasants-about half the Soviet population. Tied to kolkhozes (collective farms), which they work as sharecroppers. Russia's muzhiks live in wooden and sod huts, eat the black bread of the poor, provide the Red army with its masses of infantrymen...
...subject matter was strictly from the Red handbook: miners, child laborers, peasants, and decadent rich folks sunning at Capri. But Guttuso managed to avoid the wooden lifelessness or shrill caricatures of his less talented comrades (see below). The hit of the show was The Dying Hero, an effectively gloomy oil of a man dying on a hospital bed. Although the central figure is realistically proletarian, Guttuso rose above the level of flat political posters with his geometric handling of pillow and sheets, skillfully done in shades of off-white against a violently contrasting red drapery...
...Clinic a second boarding house to equip for research. Connected by a corridor, these two houses look like one unit, hap-hazardly thrown together. While Clinic officials knew that their laboratory was old, they never believed it was feeble. But in 1948, a University inspector found that the wooden pillars supporting the house were rotting away...
...same routine was repeated in the spring of 1952. But last June. Penelope seemed to be in a more sociable mood. When she scratched timidly at the wooden barrier that separated her from Cecil, the curators happily lifted Cecil over the barrier. Nothing overt was observed, but Penelope was no longer evasive and the two platypuses seemed to get along nicely. When the curators provided her with eucalyptus leaves. Penelope took them into the burrow. Since wild platypuses make their breeding nests out of just such leaves, the curators grew hopeful...