Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...douse sail, the blocks jammed on the foremast, broaching the bark broadside to the wind. In the nightmare of ripping canvas and splintering timber, much of the vessel's cumbersome top hamper came crashing down, covering the deck with a lethal spiderweb of flailing steel cables. Heavy wooden yardarms slashed right and left, battering lifeboats and rafts into pulp, and punching holes in the deck itself...
Next night the brother will escape, and the night after that. Arnie will hide in the hole he has dug. A short time after the nightly cell count has revealed the prisoner's absence, brother Palance will kidnap, at the point of a wooden pistol, a motorist on a highway near the prison, and later ditch the car in a residential district, where Arnie's wife will pick him up. As soon as the news of the kidnaping reaches the police, they will assume that the prisoner has escaped, and relax precautions. Whereupon Prisoner Palance will...
...agree to erect any barrier to the rampant winds. It seems only fair that the dauntless group which braves the winds to stand up the courts also be given a chance to play the game. If trees cannot survive in the miserable soil of Soldiers Field, then a wooden fence comparable to those surrounding the better protected football fields would be in order...
...told the Mirror that he doubted that the Reds succeeded in any of these objectives. "For one thing," he said, "they made their gimmicks too obvious. They could not keep secrets. It was obvious that all the wooden buildings of Moscow had just been given fresh paint jobs. And everywhere the youth roamed in the city, the Russians were eager to brag about it. They were proud that their town was spic-and-span for the first time in 20 years...
...rich little poor girl than a poor little rich girl." Sandra reached her conclusion after a summer vacation hiking around England, Scotland and Wales on a tight budget with a rucksack on her back, stopping at 70?-a-night youth hostels that "had just cold water and a wooden tub, and some had just one faucet, so that we had to wait outside in the rain for our turn to get washed." Gushed Sandra: "It was great...