Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...involving thousands of blood-yelling participants, carried out in the big cities, usually at a popular sports ground, in which the victims are publicly denigrated, then publicly shot. (In one Shanghai mass trial, described by a Shanghai business man, relatives were allowed to take the body away in a wooden coffin after paying the cost of the bullets used to kill the victim-approximately $38.) There is an official phrase for this peculiarly Chinese variation of Communist terror: "Campaign for the suppression of counter-revolutionaries with fanfare.'''' Appropriately enough, the inventor of this apt phrase last...
Some 1,350 delegates from Communist Parties in 55 countries assembled in Moscow's Great Kremlin Palace to sit on straight wooden seats through long hours of speeches, to acquiesce in what they were told, and to applaud methodically...
Louis L. Miller '56 of Adams B-46 noticed the fire when he saw smoke coming up through his floorboards. He mentioned it to the janitor, who, upon sober reflection, decided to call the fire department. The fire was cornered in a wooden beam between the two floors and while several firemen cut holes in the ceiling of the bottom room, others pried up the floor of the top room. They met in the middle...
Fire officials said that sparks from the fourth floor fireplace caused the fire. For some time, the sparks had been falling into a crack in the floor near the fire-place. They landed on the huge wooden beam which constitutes the main support of the building's upper reaches...
...could have a nice zoo over here, because every night the wolves are howling, like in a movie. My darling idiot, you got caught. All my friends are now having their hair fixed in a beauty shop, and I, miserable girl, will spend my whole night on bare wooden planks. There are no virgin lands here, only wolves, snow, storms. Nelly is lost. Don't wait for me, dear girl friends...