Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Symbolic of Wriston's team approach to problem solving, his desk is actually a wooden round table to which his key subordinates are frequently invited to draw up chairs for long and probing conversations...
...groups united for Sunday school in the first-floor chapel, a spacious but simple chamber without stained glass windows or other religious symbols. While over 100 branch members sat scattered through the rows of wooden benches divided by two aisles, Peterson, his assistants in the branch presidency, and several Harvard undergraduates who arranged or participated in the service sit up front on the dias in theater seats with green padding. This 90-minute service, followed by separate classes on Mormon doctrine and the final Sacraments meeting at 6:30 p.m., included individual speeches and music. The Mormon hymns have...
Through the 10-ft.-tall plate-glass windows fronting on the street they could see earlier arrivals waiting for taxis and limousines. In an area beyond stood four giant replicas of children's toys-two wooden soldiers and two peasant girls -that were part of the airport's festive Christmas decorations...
Cuisenaire, who became the head of his local grade school in Thuin in 1934, retired 13 years later to complete work on his invention and to publish his findings in a book, Nombres En Couleur (1951). Cuisenaire's brainchild was a set of ten different colored wooden rods ranging in length from...
...became the most popular story of the supernatural ever written. Uninformed about vampires, Stoker baldly invented his own lore of the undead-how a vampire changes at will into a wolf or a bat, cringes in terror at the sight of a Christian cross, and lives forever unless a wooden stake is driven through its heart...