Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flown to Red China, against doctor's orders, with laryngitis and a fever. Along the way, Nehru had acted in high-strung fashion: at Calcutta he kicked aside a jobless young refugee who prostrated himself before Nehru ("He is holding my foot"); at Rangoon he wielded his wooden cane at a welcoming crowd which he thought was drawing too near. When the Nehru party finally got to Peking, it was learned that Nehru had ordered his secretary off the plane at the last minute, to make room for his personal physician. Last week, moving into one of the crises...
...dawn two army ambulances drove onto the regimental firing range, and the ten men, their hands bound, stepped out on trembling feet, looked across the bare, floodlit ground and saw ten wooden posts newly erected before a high mud wall. Guards tied each man to his post. "Don't hurt me," said Major Atarod. "I'll be quiet now." "What do you mean, brother?" smiled Colonel Siamak. "It's finished." He turned to the guards tying him to his post and said: "If we had succeeded, we'd have been less tactful with...
Close to the Tiger. The whole catch was flown to Farnborough. where experts fitted the pieces together on a wooden frame, like a 3-D jigsaw puzzle. Meanwhile, crews of courageous scientists were flying another Comet (Able Victor) on a long series of hair-raising test flights. Careless of their own lives, they tried to duplicate the stresses that had destroyed Yoke Peter. As Sir Lionel described it, "they were going as close to the tiger as possible, hoping it would not get them." Able Victor did not crash; neither did Comet Yoke Sugar, whose fuel tanks were pressure-strained...
...check this theory, Farnborough built 100 small wooden models of the Comet, with parts designed to come apart. They were dropped from balloons or from the top of a hangar. At last one of them broke up in just the way that Yoke Peter did. Its center section spun down to the ground, where its fragments were distributed on the ground in the same pattern that the fragments of Yoke Peter had made on the bottom of the Mediterranean...
...baffling ease with which Toynbee glides over the millenniums, from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to the U.S. Civil War to Carthage's "wooden curtain" of ships to Persian headgear to the Nestorian Uighur Turkish secretaries of the Mongols to the Tokugawa regime in Japan to the Argonauts to Kon-Tiki to the Prankish Lex Salica to U.S. television, gives the reader a heady sense of omniscience and omnipresence. Toynbee is at his most fascinating and most expert as a technician of civilization. When he ex plains a civilization's functioning, he evokes the kind of satisfaction that goes...