Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Magic & Ballads. The program got under way at 10 a.m. at a wooden speaking platform under an enormous frame shelter. There was room for 300 fan-waving listeners under the shed, and a public-address system rigged to a station wagon kept the rest of the ridge informed. A magician performed for the small fry, and Pleaz Mobley, the Eighth District's Republican candidate for Congress, sang the old English ballads that the hillfolk love...
...could not win support for stringent anti-inflation measures. Has since turned down all Cabinet offers because he disapproved of the long succession of patchwork coalitions designed to do as little as possible to offend as few as possible of France's variegated factions. "You cannot cauterize a wooden leg," said Mendès-France contemptuously...
...from Caddy. Sam Snead was born and raised in Ashwood, a hamlet near the mountain resort of Hot Springs, Va. and its famed golf hotel, the Homestead. The five Snead brothers begged broken-shafted clubs from the Homestead caddy master, and replaced their splintered wooden shafts with whittled hickory sticks or old buggy-whip handles. Sometimes they carved an entire driver from a hickory sapling with a knotty root...
...year was dramaticized by the plea of athletic director William J. Bingham for a stadium capable of housing 80,000 spectators. Throughout the spring term the argument raged back and forth, as the Corporation postponed final decision. Finally, on June 1, the governing body voted to replace the condemned wooden stands with concrete seats. But the following fall permanent concrete stands were found to be too expensive and permanent steel stands were constructed to enclose the open end of the stadium...
Round the Earth. He followed the ship's outline up the dim chamber. The hull, a shipshaped cavity carved out of the bedrock, appeared to be about 125 ft. long and 17 ft. wide. Its six wooden decks were somewhat shrunken away from the stone, and so. El Malakh could see down and count them. The wood seemed in fine condition, as if the painters had just finished their job. There were no cobwebs, which is a sign that the chamber's gypsum seal had never been broken. If the industrious graverobbers of ancient Egypt had really missed...