Word: woodenly
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...families fleeing the Burmese army's long-running campaign of terror against ethnic minorities such as the Shan. They include more than 200 orphans: Nang Nang, a shyly smiling girl in a grubby tracksuit, shares a tin-roofed dormitory with dozens of other girls who sleep on a wooden platform over a mud floor. For many, this has been home for five years, but not for much longer. The dormitory lies in Thai territory, insists the Thai army, which on June 1 ordered the orphanage and more than 60 Shan families living nearby to move back into Burma?and closer...
...photographers and then sat down to business, alone except for interpreters and notetakers. Reagan assumed their opening discussion would be a general one, each man outlining his broad vision of ways to manage the superpower rivalry. But after the President suggested they move from their armchairs to a rectangular wooden table, the Soviet leader pulled a detailed set of notes out of his briefcase. Then he proceeded to read. What he had brought with him, it turned out, was a series of sweeping new Soviet proposals on the whole gamut of arms-control issues: medium-range missiles, long-range strategic...
...press conference, occurring almost simultaneously in a nearby theater, Gorbachev sat behind a wooden table and spoke in sober, measured tones. "I must say the Americans came to this meeting empty-handed," he charged. But Gorbachev held out hope that even the failure in Iceland would produce a new impetus to the arms-control process. "I think the President and ourselves should reflect on this entire situation that has evolved here," he said. "We have traveled a long...
After talking for 51 minutes, the two leaders invited Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze to join them at the rectangular wooden table. When the meeting finished at 12:30, Reagan emerged and told a group of his top aides, "They've got a proposal. But I'm afraid they're going to try to go after SDI." That was when Shultz gathered the top U.S. arms officials to meet in the embassy's secure "bubble" room to revise the President's talking points for the afternoon session...
...deliberate, wooden tones, Hasenfus told a press conference in Managua that he and 24 to 26 companions had worked in San Salvador for an organization called Corporate Air Services. The group, he said, had been supervised by "two naturalized Cuban Americans" named Max Gomez and Ramon Medina who "worked for the CIA." The pair, claimed Hasenfus, did most of the flight coordination, "oversaw all our housing projects, and also refueling and some fright plans...