Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coke machine may soon be installed to draw hot-weather customers and keep up the present average of about 100 visitors a day. Stastney also intends to increase the comfort of the room, which is now furnished with plain wooden chairs and tables...
Eternal Spirit. For last week's show, Old Dada-Daddy Marcel Duchamp had hung some of Dada's best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution...
...Korean truce talks opened at Kaesong in July, 1951 had Communist negotiators said, "I agree to your proposal," so often in such a short time. After several days of rapid progress last week, Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, chief of the U.N. liaison group, came triumphantly out of the wooden, Red-built conference house at Panmunjom, announcing that the U.N.-Communist agreement on exchange of sick & wounded prisoners had been signed. Photographers persuaded the admiral to perform his exit a second time, waving the agreement in his hand...
...propped his shoulder against the wooden doorframe. His combat boots sank in the soft mud of the communication trench. As Chinese heads popped around a bend in the trench, one by one, Stanley cut loose with his BAR. "All through the shells and burp guns," he recalled later, "I kept on whispering I believe in only one God, Jesus, and crying out the Lord is my shepherd...
...posed on the uncomfortable upholstery of government-surplus furniture. A laughing two-year-old perched precariously on the back of a chaise longue; a young woman postured in leg-revealing shorts. Upstairs a sleek blonde feigned innocent sleep. In one cellar, pajama-clad parents had herded their kids into wooden FCDA shelters, as if they had just been awakened by the wail of a warning siren. In every room, dummy Americans waited for the works...