Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Tucker. Last week Painter Namatjira was back in his simple wooden house in Hermannsburg after his first trip to eastern Australia. Albert made the 1,200-mile journey to Canberra in response to a gold-crested invitation to meet his sovereign. Queen Elizabeth II. After being presented to the Queen, he attended a lavish state ball where the tables groaned with caviar and pheasant. Commented Albert, who still eats honey ants at home: "Good tucker...
Expose. In Pamplona, Spain, magistrates at the city courthouse learned that 14 copper lightning rods, installed to safeguard the court during the perennial thunderstorms, had been sold on the black market in 1952 and secretly replaced by painted wooden poles...
...behind the stars are the three Good Fairies. As the fairies' section boss, Una, Jo Maheu is occasionally wooden and unconvincing. But in smaller roles Liz Johnson (who assembled the brilliant costumes) and Sue Campbell are appealing sprites...
Dempster took to the Zambezi a service rifle. 4,000 rounds of war-surplus ammunition and a wooden dinghy with an outboard motor. He soon met an indignant bull-hippo, who immediately seized both the dinghy and the Zulu helmsman and tore them to pieces. Dempster also found that his hard-nosed service bullets were useless: they ricocheted off a croc's bumpy hide. But the worst snag was the crocodile-birds, a species of African plover. The crocodile's "dental service" is provided by his plovers ("a mating pair ... to each crocodile"), who fly fearlessly into...
...chief affirmed that as far as he knew the Smoker has never been granted a license in past years. He surmised that they "went ahead and had it anyway." He further found fault with the wooden interior of Memorial Hall, and said that with such a great risk involved he saw no chance of smoking being permitted...