Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bedchamber. A few hours later, a passer-by noticed flames spurting from the lower floors of the all but empty building. He raced to turn in an alarm, but by the time the firemen arrived the whole place was ablaze. Cut off from escape by the collapse of a wooden staircase, the visiting music professor was burned to death. Thai police could not prove that the building had been purposely set afire; in fact, the local Chinese community found in the event new reason for saying nothing...
...Orleans last week, another foe of segregation got a fiery reminder that not all Southerners are willing to wrestle with their prejudices. An eight-foot, gasoline-soaked wooden cross was ignited before the residence of Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, who has called segregation "morally wrong and sinful," allowed his diocesan newspaper to talk of excommunication for Catholics who block his policy of church and school integration. One organization of segregationist Catholic laymen is appealing to Rome after having been forced by the archbishop to disband...
...editors made a commendable attempt to highlight important issues of the year in special feature articles on expansion, the theater, politics, tutorial, and religion. But the wooden prose of these articles overlays and calls to attention ideas based on straw men and poor research. The article on expansion, important as the subject is, is only a -dull and wordy rehearsal of well known arguments on both sides of the issue, and a listing of some of the financial and personnel problems. Throughout the article confusingly mixes the task of raising funds for a home to care for the present overcrowding...
...route of march from the railroad station to the Elysee Palace, where the visitors were to stay, Parisian firemen stood watch on rooftops, and every chestnut tree shaded a cop or a detective. Public sewers and private houses along the way had been combed by security men, and wooden barriers, well guarded by the police, had been set up to hold the welcoming crowds out of bomb-throwing range. Even Tito himself was impressed. "Things are not even this tight in Russia," he remarked. "I never saw anything like...
This has not prevented Hungarians who hate the rule of Communist Boss Rakosi from attempting to cross into Austria. Some have tried to detonate the delicate personnel mines by driving cats in front of them. Others have laid wooden planks on the wire. Austrian authorities estimate that some 6,000 have got across safely. Of late only one in three attempts is successful, and at least 500 have been killed by mines and border guards. In the cemetery in the little border village of Deutschkreutz are buried 100 who did not make it to freedom...