Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deal. At 2:30 p.m. Agusti was shown to a wooden bench in a dark corridor outside the committee's door. At 6:30, when the committee members finally came out, Visca ignored Agusti's outstretched hand, seized him by the lapel and roared: "Get out of here or I will break your face!" Only a few hours earlier, Visca had seen a piece in Córdoba referring to Peronista congressmen as "inefficient drones." To emphasize his disapproval, Visca shut Córdoba down entirely...
Eric Williams' "true account" of one of World War II's most original escapes (he is the "Peter Howard" of the story) sold more than 200,000 copies in England last year. An equally avid U.S. appetite for well-paced excitement could make The Wooden Horse one of the U.S. bestsellers of the year...
...WOODEN HORSE (255 pp.)-Eric Williams-Harper...
...guard box. Almost every afternoon for the next four months the P.O.W.s vaulted tirelessly while Peter and John took turns burrowing away with a trowel at their ever-lengthening tunnel. The loose sand was packed into bags made from trouser legs. The bags were hung inside the wooden horse while the men were digging; later the sand was scattered in latrines, tomato patches, or under the prisoners' huts. Each time the diggers meticulously smoothed the original topsoil over the tunnel entrance...
Sample incident: Billy the Kid, the Hero, is swaggering down the main drag when he sees a callow youth having his troubles whittling out the inside of a wooden whistly. Billy tells him to hold out the whistle and then blasts a hole in it with his .45. Says the urchin, "Gosh, Billy, when...