Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rickety train with wooden seats last week brought a crotchety old man called Rajrishi (King of Saints) into the town of Gandhinagar and into the center of India's tense and teeming political stage. Rajrishi Purushottamdas Tandon, 68, white-bearded and frail, had beaten candidates backed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the presidency of India's dominant Congress Party. Nehru stood for progress and Westernization (with important reservations). Tandon stood for the dim & distant past, for pressure on the Moslem minority, for a Hindu state (with no reservations whatever...
...local Communists down Saint-Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street was thoroughly renamed, the mayor and his friends marched out to the football stadium to nail up a large wooden sign reading "Stade Maurice Thorez," in honor of France's top Communist...
That night 60 members of the local sports club assembled in a café to protest the new name on Saint-Junien's stadium and sent a deputation out to pull down the wooden sign. The following day Mayor Pascaud ordered a new sign put up. During the night that one too was pulled down. For five days and nights this maneuver was repeated. Last week the Communist mayor of Saint-Junien issued an order. Henceforth, he said, a municipal employee would hang a sign reading "Stade Maurice Thorez" on the stadium each morning and take it down each...
Britain's National Health Service, which costs the British taxpayer $650 million a year, supplies free medicine, also free false teeth, wigs, spectacles, glass eyes, wooden legs and hearing aids. Last week it announced that it would draw the line at bath salts, vanishing cream, shaving soap, toothpaste, hair tonic and anti-mosquito lotions. However, a spokesman admitted, there are borderline cases: "A man with an itch, it might be argued, needs medicated soap...
...been growing bigger." Lem flicked an ash off his brown Palm Beach suit. "You've seen those high-class metal handles. We couldn't get them any more, so we had to use wood. Now, you tell me, where's the eye appeal in a wooden handle...