Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clements wasn't ornery when we talked in his office. He looked like a scholar surrounded by his books, like a scholar who had known action somewhere; a Harry Truman or John Wooden. "Free spirit, high energy, risk taking, the strength of one's convictions-that's what Dallas is all about," said Clements. "All these marvelous buildings." He gestured toward downtown. "These buildings only exist because of entrepreneurs...
...advanced mountaineers. Austria's Grossglockner, a formidable peak once noted for its splendid isolation, is attacked daily by up to 200 excursionists, most of them aided by ropes and guides. So many would-be conquerors cluster around the trail that the Austrian government has built wooden platforms on many peaks to increase standing space. At Königssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists a year come to yell, some of them at the same time: their goal is to hear the echo of their voices rebound from the mountain amphitheater. As one distraught Swiss expert puts...
...school in Maine teaches the craft of wooden-boat building...
Neither have the Kennedys' "classmates," all of whom are students at an unusual institution called, appropriately, the WoodenBoat School. Fascinated by boats in general and by wooden ones in particular, most have been avid readers of a bimonthly called WoodenBoat, and most have dreamed of acquiring the skills necessary to build their own craft. But few have had the time or the freedom to apprentice themselves to the small number of American boatbuilders who work in wood. "I'd like nothing better than to take a year off and learn the trade," says Alan ("Dusty") Rhoades, a Navy...
...same time, the Administration is eager to support Mubarak in a moment of need and suggested that he call for an international rescue mission. Britain contributed four mine-searching vessels, which have wooden hulls to reduce the risk of setting off magnetic mines. France has sent four minesweepers and two support ships to the region. The U.S. dispatched four Sea Stallion helicopters and a contingent of about 200 men aboard the Shreveport, an amphibious transport vessel that entered the Gulf of Suez at midweek. The Shreveport joined the U.S. oceanographic ship the Harkness, where 15 mine-warfare experts were already...