Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peddle Moscow's brand of sweet reasonableness, however, the Kremlin bosses sent glum, wooden-faced Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, whom a Western diplomat last week happily characterized as "the least attractive, least persuasive diplomat they have." In his gravelly tones Gromyko ran through a predictable catalogue of invective-"oil, oil and oil again; that was the thing which was tempting the monopolies of the U.S. and the United Kingdom"-and introduced a resolution demanding that the U.S. and Britain withdraw their troops from Lebanon and Jordan "without delay." But Gromyko closed on what from him-or any other Russian...
...went on to Plymouth, seven green-hued, platoon-size tents, surrounded by the flags of 48 states and the District of Columbia (at least one work comes from each), make up the exhibition hall for the "Provincetown Arts Festival-American Art of Our Time." Inside the tents, on long, wooden frame rows crowded too close for proper viewing, 400 paintings are hung alphabetically, a few inches apart. Badly lit, they nevertheless attract some 500 viewers a day, including a fair number of collectors who have already bought 53. The 400 were culled from 10,000 entries submitted to eight regional...
...authors speak in their introduction of enduring daily police questioning and of being "forced to resort to lies, to cultivate friendships among informers, torturers and murderers" in order to keep faith with friends, there is no evidence of respect for the Spanish people. Good and bad, the little wooden characters are manipulated with contempt...
Bisset had six years in sail, scrambling out on the swaying yards to clew up a topgallant sail, growing calluses on his knees from holystoning the wooden decks with "Bibles" (big stones) and "prayer books" (little ones). Though experiences in a square-rigger would seem to be of small use to the master of a modern liner, Bisset insists there is no better training. Any man in sail had to learn to make right decisions instantly, he argues. That Jimmy Bisset learned his lesson well is shown by his accident-free later service. On the Queen Mary he carried...
...trials of playing the bush are formidable. The Queensland Symphony Orchestra, for instance, travels 3,500 miles a year in four wooden railroad sleeping cars, carrying with it such essentials as stage curtains, lights, primus stoves and portable iceboxes. In the town of Innisfail, instruments too big to go up the hilltop concert hall's narrow stairway were hoisted 80 ft. by steel cables. At Townsville the musicians heard an ominous crackling sound, scrambled offstage seconds before a 30-ft. beam crashed down on their music stands and chairs...