Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorist kidnaping of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. His widow and children and the relatives of his slain chauffeur and bodyguards attended a ceremony at the simple stone monument on the Cologne street where the abduction took place. Hundreds of other citizens laid flowers at the foot of the wooden cross erected at the site a few days after the shooting. But accompanying the sorrow was a jittery feeling that radiated throughout the city and across West Germany. Many of the Red Army Faction, whose members had killed Schleyer, were still at large, and no one could be certain they would...
...prayer is that the new Pope identifies with the poor and oppressed of the world, so that future covers of TIME symbolizing the office will show a simple wooden cross-such as Bishop Dom Helder Câmara wears-indicating a papacy that enters into the suffering of others...
Aside from outright illegality, the GSA, long a haven for lackluster patronage employees, suffers from inefficiency and careless shopping habits. Notes one Government insider: "The GSA operates on a service concept-if you don't like your wooden desk, they'll get you a marble one. Who cares? Nobody has to pay." The Washington Post revealed that the GSA was paying $56.50 for a General Electric cassette tape recorder that was on sale to the public for $46.90 at a Washington discount retailer. The GSA also paid $20.70 for a Texas Instruments pocket calculator that was priced...
...futile. Lacking skills and education, they have settled for poverty-level employment at best-and in all too many instances, no job at all. By working ten hours a day, six days a week, an ambitious woman might earn about $75 per month, scarcely enough to survive in a wooden and tin-can hovel, let alone support her children. At the same time, the peasants contribute endlessly to a stunningly high birth rate (37.1 per thousand). Thousands of parents are forced to cast their offspring out like rubbish...
...Jill Clayburgh. Seeing perhaps with the eyes of his imagination, the director stumbled over a No Parking sign and broke both his elbows. Not one to let so minor an inconvenience as arm-length casts deter him, Bertolucci was back on the set in two weeks, using a long wooden holder for his view finder. "When I started to direct this film," he said, "I already had a heavy responsibility as director and co-author of the screenplay, and had a part in the production of the film. Now it's an even heavier responsibility with the casts...