Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment dwellers with children, play space is at a premium. A dozen mothers, members of the West Hollywood Munchkins Play Group, convene three days a week in cramped West Hollywood Park. They unlock a wooden shed, pass out toys and warily eye the winos by the shuffleboard court and the gay men seeking casual sex around the shrubs and public toilet. "We complain to the police, and they arrest these perverts in the toilet," Abrams says. "Look, I don't care what they do, but I don't want it in front of my kid. We want a separate children...
...Bill Walton's tenure at UCLA also marked the end of an era for the Bruins, who--under the coaching of the legendary John Wooden--won three NCAA titles with Walton in the middle and four straight titles before Walton came. The UCLA Bruins didn't just have a winning tradition in NCAA basketball during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Bruins were NCAA basketball...
Dimly lit, with ancient illustrations of Yale and old black wooden tables with the carved initials of many Elis, Naples Pizzeria on 90 Wall St. excudes atmosphere...
...residents engaged in a rare gun battle at a local mosque; one colored man was killed and a white police sergeant seriously wounded. A few days earlier, security forces drove a truck through the suburb and, when a crowd began to throw stones at it, officers concealed in wooden boxes atop the vehicle suddenly emerged and fired shotguns into the crowd. Antiapartheid leaders denounced the decoy operation, which South African newspapers dubbed the "Trojan Horse" incident, and thousands of people turned out for the funeral of three youths slain in the fusillade. At week's end the government dispatched hundreds...
Club members explain that there are four main styles of Shintaido: Open-Hand Shintaido, Bohjitsu, Kenjitsu and Shintaido-Karate. Open-Hand Shintaido is pure Shintaido without the use of a weapon, while both Bohjitsu and Kenjitsu both involve the use of a wooden sword or of a staff respectively. Shintaido-Karate combines Shintaido and Karate...