Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inroads of civilization and the disintegration of the ancestral myths have made "duck-billing" a dying custom. Only a few elderly believers are still alive. Even they have shown a tendency to go mod ern; instead of the old wooden plugs, the Fali women are turning to plastic lip plugs, preferably colored bright...
...long, villagers, priests, Cabinet ministers, Senators, and children from a nearby orphanage thronged the mountain road to pass by the wooden bed where lay the gaunt old figure. Pope Pius sent personal condolences; so did Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, interrupting a U.S. vacation, flew back to Rome to represent President Eisenhower at the funeral. Said she: "America lost a good friend and Italy a great statesman...
...Queen of Cities that her greatest attraction this year appeared to be her famed sewers, whose daily attendance was three times normal. Each day, record rows of tourists lined up at the manhole in the Place de la Concorde to take the tour through the ancient, labyrinthine tunnels in wooden barges (price 17?). "It stinks," observed one American on emerging last week, "but it was cheap...
...June 1815, the British brigantine Nautilus surrendered to the American sloop-of-war Peacock after a battle in the Sunda Strait. In the days of relatively unsinkable wooden ships, captures were frequent. Perhaps the most remarkable of such achievements was that of French hussars who discovered a Dutch fleet helplessly frozen in at Texel in January 1795, and captured it by a cavalry charge across...
...came bouncing onto the dike-enclosed farming island on a motorcycle, to replace the old doctor who had died, the poor peasants refused to take him seriously. Short, bald, muscular and hairy-chested, he looked like a good-natured, grinning ape. Unlike his dapper predecessor, he wore the wooden shoes and coarse clothing of his patients. He cursed, he got into fist fights, and he loved his gin. When he showed up to deliver a baby on his first case, he even had a little trouble being admitted to the house. How could this genial ruffian be so unprofessional...