Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wooden Birds. Just as in Holland, where Hals and Rembrandt painted citizen companies of harquebusiers, Polish burghers formed shooting fraternities. Their aim was to defend their city walls; more often they were social militias. Their targets were wooden birds atop staffs, a custom recalled in the Cracow fraternity's emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient...
...week for most U.S. salts, and the annual effort of putting up the boats for winter was nearly completed. The usual technique is to haul them out, secure them on cradles and cover them with canvas. The method is timehonored, but in many ways unsatisfactory. In the first Place, wooden hulls tend to "come and go"' that is, the timbers shrink in the dry winter air, expand when put back in the water. As a result, hulls can warp, fittings are sometimes sheared. Secondly, the cradle in which a boat rests may not fit properly and thet boat will...
...nervous stock market which could be expected to cut sales of luxury goods. Sales of color TV sets will climb from 2,750,000 last year to about 4,750,000; actually, TV makers could do much better were they not slowed by shortages of tubes, copper and wooden cabinets. Meanwhile, Americans have escalated spending for services by 8.5% this year, partly because of higher prices, but mostly because of greater desire for comfort, convenience and better-quality living. The nation's medical bill is up 11% to $25 billion, and annual spending on TV-radio repairs...
...thing the show makes amply clear: Hals is not just the painter of laughing cavaliers and gypsy girls. He is, in fact, more of a Dutch uncle than he first appears. Many of his women are as homely as a wooden shoe. He lived during the dawn of the age of reason, when the philosopher Rene Descartes, whom Hals painted, proclaimed "I think, therefore I am." Man as pictured by Hals bulks almost impertinently from the canvas, but often there is a glint of self-knowledge in his eyes...
Even so, latter-day archaeologists have exposed four city blocks in so remarkable a state of preservation that its citizens might have left only yesterday: wooden doors still swinging on their hinges, a bronze water valve that works, unmelted wax tablets, cracked walnuts in a jar, coils of rope, cut flowers, glass jars, needles, thumbtacks, a dish of garlic, chicken bones left over from someone's last meal...