Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile, four-hour train ride from the capital to Alexandria, through Sadat's home district in the heart of the verdant Nile delta. "This is my Georgia," exclaimed the Egyptian leader, pointing to the landscape of thatched-roof mud houses and farmers tilling with ox-drawn wooden plows. The antique diesel locomotive, decorated with flowers and palms, was greeted along the way by the shrill sound of reed instruments and the rhythmic clapping of hands. Dangling from trees and lampposts, clustered on roofs and balconies, and crowding close to the rails, tens of thousands of robed farmers, workers and students...
...Eddie Bernstein lost both legs at the age of twelve when a train ran over him. He began riding around in a goat cart, selling newspapers. In the mid-'30s, he left the Depression-ridden South and moved to Washington, D.C., where he established himself on a wooden platform on F Street between 12th and 13th Streets. He joked and chattered and begged for his living. Women shoppers often took pity on the legless panhandler, and one of them, Evalyn McLean, owner of the Hope diamond, gave him a capuchin monkey named Gypsy. It did tricks for what Bernstein...
...Knowles became the youngest general director of MGH, where he began some structural changes to eliminate what he called "the cattle-car concept of medicine." He replaced long wooden benches in the hospital's emergency ward and outpatient department with comfortable modern chairs and remodeled stark waiting rooms...
Marina mariners wax lyrical over the psychological and physical rewards of being their own skippers. Mrs. Johnston, 48, has lived for more than twelve years on her wooden 55-ft. sailboat, Silhouette. "I love the water," she says. "I love to get up in the morning and see the seagulls. It's a lovely sensation being rocked to sleep. It's like a continuous camping-out trip...
Keohan said the department may use fences consisting of stakes and wires, similar to those used in the Yard, rather than the red wooden snow fences which surrounded the Quad during the fall...