Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a quick inspection of his duck pond (pop. 37 mallards, three wooden ducks), Ike summoned a strange-looking vehicle that looked like a cross between a jeep and a surrey. Over its open top was a fringed canopy; the words "Ike" and "Mamie" were painted on the front fenders. The car, a little Crosley, was presented to Ike a year ago by an anonymous friend for use as a golf buggy. But it proved too big for golf, on a field test at Burning Tree, and was retired to the farm. Ike climbed aboard, was driven to another barn...
...sleeve and rumbled: "I don't like what you said at your news conference." Frowning, Wilson began to reply in a quiet voice. Talbott interrupted brusquely: "You haven't done one thing to defend me." Then an aide called them over for pictures; smiling like wooden Indians (or Washington officials), they posed together with Quarles. Later, Talbott denied that he had made his bitter remark to Wilson, but four witnesses said that they had heard...
...steps. He has never once reposed in his office contour lounge chair. Quarles directed all military research projects, from the details of new uniforms to nuclear-powered ships and planes, and the planned new earth satellite. To keep historical perspective, he keeps at the entrance to his office a wooden club labeled: FIRST GUIDED MISSILE...
...Havoc. In Wallsend, Australia, Hilton Clifford, 42, fell into a beery sleep during a cops-and-robbers movie, woke up when the villain was bludgeoning the heroine, ran through the town yelling for help, tore up a wooden station house gate to attract police to the scene, was fined ?1 ($2.24), ordered to pay ?10 damages...
...beating out his rhythms in cellar joints instead of getting cured in a nice, clean sanatorium. The novelty lay in the fact that Bob Crosby and his Bobcats not only played their instruments but also tried to be players. What was gained in verisimilitude was lost in the wooden-Indian school of acting: Crosby, in particular, delivered each line with a granite impassivity that Ed Sullivan might have envied. John Forsythe agonized as the dying piano player, and Actor Donald Buka gave the show a fine shot in the arm as a real gone musician who seemed right...