Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panmunjom, U.N. and Communist negotiators met for the first time in the durable wooden conference house built by the Reds. For the sixth straight week, the negotiators declared a recess. But there was no recess in bloodletting: latest Defense Department figures listed 116,655 U.S. casualties since the start of the war, including 20,506 battle deaths, 1,613 known captured, 9,441 missing...
...Wooden stands served to increase the seating capacity, but were condemned in 1927. The University rejected filling in the open part of the Stadium with concrete because it would cost too much--$380,000--and because it could not be built to duplicate the horseshoe...
Road Repairs. In Niles, Calif., when Harry Short was arrested for burglarizing a tavern, he explained why he was carrying a twelve-inch claw bar, a ten-inch screwdriver, a hack saw and six blades, and a three-cornered file: he had a wooden leg and needed all those things to keep it in walking order...
...While Mow fumed, the gumshoes searched his house, snatched his papers. Then, without preferring formal charges, they bundled the greying general and the blonde up to Mexico City and locked them for three days in a 12-by-12-foot detention office, where they slept on a couple of wooden desks...
...primitives, Bombois' pictures were getting most of the attention. He had sent a portrait, robust circus scenes, romantic riverscapes. His most talked-about painting was Utrillo Kissing His Prayer Book, which shows the famed painter in a white coat, clutching a black prayer book as he faces a wooden crucifix; in the background is a black, star-speckled sky. Most British critics had pleasant things to say about burly old (69) Bombois and his innocent simplicity. Art News & Review. "Bombois is the hero of this exhibition . . . [Utrillo] is an extraordinary piece of work, an uncomfortable tribute to the founder...