Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole place has a precious air of olde fashioned Americanness: wooden beams on the ceiling, pewter saltcellars, and murals. One has the merry muffinman wheeling his muffincart past a streetsign marked "Muffin Sq.," and another shows a bunch of Harvard students alighting from their horses, obviously discussing the local muffinhouse, which serves simple but solid fare...
...were. Those needs were modest-such things as a pair of dry socks and some writing material. TIME provided the tiny pencil, which the Christian Reform Laymen's League included in 200,000 packets to Viet Nam. Surprisingly, the minipencil is serving purposes far beyond postcard writing. Its wooden shaft, wrote one Marine, is being used to clean the hard-to-get-at rifle sights, while the graphite helps sliding parts of the M16. Hearing of this, the volunteer group asked TIME for more of them to be included in a second shipment. This week another 200,000 pencils...
James Earl Ray had fled the Missouri State Penitentiary in April 1967, hiding in a big wooden breadbox to get from the prison bakery to the outside world. He had twice before tried to escape, once placing a dummy in his bed and hiding in a ventilator shaft; once he broke a makeshift ladder trying to scale the wall...
...guest: "When a man sees that there is no place in the world that he loves, he deceives himself into thinking he loves his town." The guest is soon disillusioned. War and time have done their disfiguring work. The town is poor. Its sickly citizens limp about on wooden legs, use grenade-smashed faces as beggars' blackmail. Gone are the old fireball discussions of Zionism, socialism, and who will be the next rabbi...
...this century; he rode the rods in the '20s, and after a life of honest work, he subsists on social security. He journeys East for an old relative's funeral, and in New York City he is knocked down by a heart attack. His hand-crafted wooden suitcase is still in hand, his treasured copy of the Carpenter's Manual is in the suitcase...