Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepared any speech so I cannot remember the exact words . . . But what I am absolutely certain of is that I never mentioned hands or blood." Judge Pierantoni interrupted: "What I want to know is whether you mentioned hands and holy water." Deputy Diaz tapped her feet on the wooden floor. Said she: "Niente mani" (no hands). She went on: "I did mention holy water...
...Korean civilians whose tentative manseis showed their bewilderment over this latest thrust of armed forces through their countryside. There was little sign of the enemy. Occasionally a single rifle shot, or a flurry of shots, rang out. Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering flash the jeep sailed into a roadside paddy field. One man was led, stumbling, from the wreckage; another was laid face down on a litter and quietly covered with a blanket. At 6:30 p.m., Task Force Growdon linked up with the paratroopers. "Boy," said...
...exhibits also opened recently at Busch-Reisinger. One, a collection of contemporary German art, includes four drawings by Paul Klee. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York lent the other exhibit, a display of wooden religious figures from the Gothic period...
...Trumans and a few others, M. Auriol will give a reception to which he, as an old parliamentarian himself, plans to invite every member of the Senate and the House. To handle the overflow, the embassy is putting up a large green and white tent, with a wooden floor...
...Tiki boom in Britain has been even more remarkable. In a country with a third as many people as the U.S., the book has sold 230,000 copies in eleven months. Another adventure yarn that has been racing Kon-Tiki in British bookstores is Eric Williams' The Wooden Horse (TIME, Jan. 23, 1950), a suspense-tilled story of the escape of British soldiers from a German prison camp in Silesia. It has sold 250,000 copies since its British publication two years...