Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This editorial, called "Join the Community," was published on April 16, 1986, the day after students erected a shantytown in Harvard Yard, complete with a wooden "Ivory Tower...
...police poured into the area, a small wooden box containing a detonator was found in a nearby park. The box apparently had been connected by cable to a bomb attached to a bicycle parked on the limousine's route. Police say the bomb included a light-sensitive device that triggered the explosion precisely as Herrhausen's limousine passed by. Under the box was a piece of paper with the all too familiar star-shaped symbol superimposed on a drawing of a Kalashnikov rifle: the trademark of West Germany's ultra-leftist urban terrorists, the Red Army Faction...
...path on the mudflats of the Swartops river. Boesman and Lena have nothing but what they carry on their backs, and what they carry is "white man's rubbish"--pieces of metal to make a shack for the night, a rusty barrel, a few dirty blankets and two wooden crates...
...Democrats do it? They should first of all thank their opponents, whose wooden personalities proved to be serious liabilities. When The New York Times ran a pre-election biography on New York Republican mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani, they only distanced him further from most voters...
...refugees simply walked in the giant wooden doors of the Palais Lobkowicz, the elegant Baroque palace that houses the West German Embassy in Prague's ancient Mala Strana district...