Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dust screens rise before the attacking tribesmen, mobile artillery lobs fireballs at the wooden stockade, and at the climactic moment an improvised land torpedo demolishes a corner of the fort. The siege is superlatively picturesque, and so is almost everything else that Cameraman "Wilfrid Cline has trained his lens on. Some spectators, though, may be mildly startled at the final fade, in which the lovers are back in the water again, drifting sensuously downstream together with nothing on as they laugh derisively at the wagon train that rolls sturdily past them on its way to the coast. Somehow, it just...
...numbers, Hong Kong's 2,400,000 Chinese, speaking every dialect of the mainland, dominate the colony, but a few thousand English-speaking whites run it. The mellow beat of wooden clogs on pavement, the clatter of mah-jongg pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
What followed has not been easy on Japanese muscles. For generations Japanese have knelt on tatami (matting), staggered under heavy loads, shuffled pigeon-toed to keep their wooden clogs from slipping off. Many Japanese have thick thighs, knotty calves and short legs. But sturdiness of limb renders the Japanese dancers strong on point, and their natural determination makes for well-disciplined performers. And some observers have noted that the new generation's proportions are closer to the long-legged Western ideal. The cultural hurdle has been even more imposing than the structural difficulties. Ballet plots, often obscure at their...
...promoting "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge." The Esso Education Foundation, set up last year, follows a new business trend of giving aid to schools. But some foundations have such narrow purposes that the trustees have trouble spending the money. A Boston hospital was given a fund to provide wooden legs for Civil War veterans; another philanthropist left $2,000,000 to care for the daughters of men killed while working on the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...closeness of the game was matched only by the enthusiasm of the M.I.T. students. The wooden stands were completely full before the start of play and over 200 late-comers were forced to stand or sit on the wrestling mats and steam pipes that surrounded the court...