Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scalp," he said after the preliminary question bout was over. He motioned me over to another chair under an enlarged version of a stamp magnifier with a built in light. He flipped a switch and began rummaging with the lens and a sharp wooden stick. Thirty seconds sufficed for a complete diagnosis...
This week comes the climax of the Mahamastakabhisheka. The Jains have prepared a wooden scaffolding around the idol's back and sides. On the last day, hundreds of priests and sanyasis, as they have done for centuries, will mount the scaffolding holding clay pots full of milk and melted butter. To the sound of flutes and drums, they will pour milk and butter over Gomateswara's head. Then, the anointing accomplished, the faithful will scatter back to their homes across the breadth of India, for another 15 years or so, until the next Mahamastakabhisheka...
...restless energy of the small frame. Rhee is the last of the old heroes of the Korean struggle for independence, a man with long memories. Just outside Seoul lie the ruins of Westgate prison, where the Emperor Koh-Jong's jailers spliced Rhee's fingers between wooden wands which the jailers twisted until his fingers were almost ripped from the joints; there he was imprisoned for seven years...
...secrecy surrounding hush-hush projects. The company has put two guided missiles on an assembly line and production is up 60% over 1951. It is also spending "hundreds of millions of dollars" on 15 other missile projects. In the commercial jet transport race, Douglas' entry is now in wooden mock-up and $1,000,000 has been spent...
...used to have wooden ships and iron men. Now we've got iron ships and wooden men," said the training officer to a bunch of German naval cadets just after World War II began. Cadet Heinz Schaeffer, 18, soon found that officers and NCOs had ways of putting iron into the German navy's new blood. Each man was handed an electrically charged bar. Movies recorded who screamed and who bit his cheeks in the approved stoic fashion. It was deep winter, but at 6 a.m. reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training...