Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lemann remembered Fickett as the "ideal of the New England schoolmarm" personality, with her "downeast" appearance and voice. Even in the hot summer, Lemann said, she would go into the business office "in her schoolmarm clothes," open the sliding wooden window and "not let anything phase...
Both chronologically and geographically, the cases she will consider are widespread: the Trojan decision to knock down their walls to admit the wooden horse. Montezuma's refusal to send his vast armies against Cortes. Napoleon's fated invasion of Russia, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the American involvement in Vietnam...
...whittles chains, swords, canes and slingshots, and claims in the doing that it puts his mind to rest. In his office recently he was asked what one does with a 10-ft.-long wooden chain, and Windsor said, "Hang it on the wall, of course." About that time Windsor's assistant and chief ad salesman, Billy Arthur Jr., who is 3 ft. tall, walked in. The editor introduced him as a reprobate and a womanizer but said he was a genius. "This boy can make a bomb out of anything," Windsor said. Billy Arthur Jr. was then asked what...
...burn in the kitchen stove instead of coal. He was an enthusiastic singer who competed in school contests; at Sunday church services the Mondales led the congregation in hymns. In 1938, when Fritz was ten, his father wanted the family to see the nation's capital. He nailed wooden boards around the sides of a flatbed truck, loaded in canned goods and mattresses, and drove his wife and three sons to Washington. There he visited one of Minnesota's Senators, who invited the family to a meal in the Senate dining room; young Fritz tagged along...
...Japanese engineers and artisans who built the park nonetheless stamped it with their signatures. Main Street is spanned by a gigantic roof, a concession to Japan's rainy season. For a Western barn, carpenters used an ancient Oriental method for fitting wooden joints together precisely. Two shows are tailored to the locale: Meet the World uses film and animation in a revolving theater to give insights into 2,000 years of Japanese history, and The Eternal Sea, an 18-minute movie, whisks audiences past open-jawed sharks and over the ocean floor...