Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late afternoon the 10,000 protesters, some armed with iron rods and wooden clubs with nails protruding, began advancing on the bridge. As Jaime Tadeo, a leftist peasant leader, shouted, "Charge Malacanang! Break down the barricades!" and his followers returned a chant of "Revolution! Revolution!," the protesters closed with the security forces. At first the policemen held their ground, but as the crowd pushed forward amid a hail of stones, the police lines began wavering. Frantic police officers shouted, "You can't go through." Tadeo, struggling in the front lines, yelled back, "We're going to Malacanang...
...Historical Commission, though, the building's value comes not from nostalgia, but from its unique cornices and the fact that it represents an older Harvard Square, like the other three-story wooden buildings on Eliot and JFK Sts. One Commission member even called the first floor and basement levels "destroyed" architecturally...
Then there was the Divinity School student who mutilated himself on the steps of the State House earlier this fall. Erwin L. Rupert II pierced his chest with wooden skewers in a ritual act to show support for four Vietnam veterans fasting in Washington...
Cleveland's defensive secondary was similarly gifted but vain. Cornerbacks Hanford Dixon and Frank Minnifield barked like dogs at their own great plays. Bones began to fly out of the grandstands, and a wooden doghouse became a bleacher fixture (until one Sunday a security guard noticed it took more fans to carry it in than out, and investigating, found a keg of beer inside). After last January's narrow play-off loss in Miami, the 8-8 Browns were plainly getting better but were still 17 years between postseason victories...
...which he shares with 19 others. A coal-burning stove provides the only heat in winter and helps dry the rows of fetid clothes that hang on string lines. The miners sleep on pads on top of grimy two-level cement-slab bunks and store their possessions in small wooden lockers. One of Olebogeng's roommates was still there, packing T shirts for his two young daughters. "I'm gone so much, I'm surprised they recognize me," said Miyo Molale. Another miner, Philip Moshigo, was even tying up a double bed and mattress for the trip home. "My family...