Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock, it is dark, it is August, and it is hot. The sounds are of traffic rushing down one of Birmingham, Alabama's major arteries a hundred yards away. The occasional car that squeals around the corner and drives northward flashes past groups of dark figures lounging on rickety wooden chairs transplanted from living rooms to front lawns...
...with Laotian roulette: "I was tied to a tree and used for target practice-the guards tried to see how close they could come to hitting me." Finally, three weeks after his crash, Dengler was led into a bamboo stockade somewhere near the trail and locked up in crude, wooden "footcuffs" with six other U.S. flyers. The prisoners were fed a handful of rice twice a week, supplemented their diet with snakes and anything else that crawled through their hut. "Once," Dengler recalled, "we caught a snake that had swallowed two rats. We cut it open and ate the rats...
...Schirach, who busied themselves in the Spandau garden and read voluminously (Speer raised exemplary gladioli; Von Schirach memorized passages from Dante's Divine Comedy), Hess, for the most part, lies on the floor of his 7-by 10-ft. cell, clad in grey shirt, brown corduroys and wooden clogs, and practices yoga. During exercise periods, he marches listlessly about the yard in a black overcoat with a white numeral 7 stenciled on its back. Sometimes he reads the Frankfurter Allgemeine or the Communist Neues Deutschland...
...corrupting influence not only on floors and walls ("Her fight against dirt was based on the premise that circumstances make poor, but people make dirt") but on human moral fiber as well. Mama and Papa both believed, furthermore, that children should be disciplined with whatever was handy-shaving strops, wooden ladles, rolled-up newspapers-instead of psychology. Writes Levenson: "I didn't know that fathers were not supposed to hit kids if they were bad. Most fathers hit kids-anybody...
...Howlin' Wolf, 56, is the chief exponent of "dirty downhome" country blues. "The Wolf" rarely stirs his hulking, 6-ft. 3-in., 250-lb. frame from a rickety wooden chair in front of his band; but standing or sitting, he movingly shouts the dilemma of the country man who is restless in the urban maze...