Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whimsical Hefner is a walk-around sculpture, 6 ft. tall, meant to be viewed from all sides. The body is painted onto a hollow box. The head is a wooden block that actually consists of a dozen pine boards glued together and shaped by Marisol's electric saw to look vaguely like a jet engine. Why a jet engine? She does not know. When the work arrived at our offices to be photographed for the cover by Frank Lerner, all the editors (well, nearly all) were delighted. But there were questions. Why the red, white and blue? "Perhaps...
...team's No. 2 scorer (at 16.6 points per game) last year. This year, his main job is to get the ball to Alcindor, and his own scoring average has slipped to 12.5. "Mike is even more valuable as a floor leader," says U.C.L.A. Coach John Wooden. "He brings the ball up court; he is an exceptionally fine passer; he can dribble to his right and left better than any player I've ever had." > St. John's University's Albie Swartz is described in the game programs as 5 ft. 10 in. tall...
...that murder, with the photographer who took motion pictures of the assassination as the shots were fired, with Ruby's former bartender and his former bandleader, both of whom testified to his intimate relationship with the Dallas police, with the one person authorized to be behind the wooden fence from which some shots were fired. The Warren Commission also felt that those who saw what was inconvenient for its preconceived conclusion were "peripheral." You may not be in good company, but you are not entirely alone...
...25th Hour. One fine day in the summer of 1939, a young Rumanian farmer with an iron arm and a wooden head jumps happily into his hay wagon and goes rattling away to the nearest market town. "Keep the bricks wet," he calls out to his wife. "I'll be back this afternoon." She keeps the bricks wet, but he does not come back that afternoon. She does not see him again until the bricks and both their lives and all of Europe have been ground to rubble under the German jackboot...
...beanies during the first days of classes. Tree Day officially establishes the Class and its song; it used to be insured by Lloyd's of London against rain. The classes march behind their banners and sing their songs on the chapel steps for Step Singing. Wellesley seniors roll large wooden hoops at graduation that have been passed down from class to class for fifty years or more. There is sophomore Fathers' Day, when the fathers attend classes and give skits in the dorm. Tuesday is faculty night. Wednesday night is tea. Three times around the Wellesley lake with...