Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bachman was the last, and least distinguished of the principals. Wooden and without fervor, she helped dispense some necessary exposition...
Commuting over the Charles had been difficult since 1635, when a small and inefficient ferry began operating. The town council, as ruthlessly swift as its modern counterpart, spent twenty-seven years arguing over construction of a bridge. Finally, in 1662, the city fathers erected a wooden bridge, the first to span the Charles, and the first of any importance in America...
...faker, now head of the Soviet delegation to the U.N., commands a dozen voices, from the sly wheedle to the choleric roar, a dozen expressions, from the impish grin to the basilisk glare. For all his arrogance, he is a much more entertaining performer than Russia's wooden men-Molotov, Malik, Gromyko. He is also a remarkable survivor of 37 years of power struggle in the Kremlin. A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921. He not only rode out the great purges...
When the lowest layer of dirt was laid down considerably more than 4,000 years ago, the people who sheltered in the cave were simple hunters. They lived on wild plants and game, which they killed with crude spears. Fishing equipment (nets and wooden harpoons) suggests that the climate was wetter then, and that Little Hell Canyon may have contained a lake...
Phillip J. McNiff, librarian in charge of the Lamont Library, which annually collects close to $4000 in fines, has not disapproved of the plan. His only request was that books be placed through a slot in a locked wooden box to avoid stealing...