Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That same day, a yellow Cadillac skidded to a stop alongside an empty lot in The Bronx. Two men jumped out, dragging a six-foot-long wooden crate. After dousing it with gasoline they ignited it, jumped back into the car and drove off. A witness who had noted the Cadillac's license number immediately called the police. The crate contained the charred corpse of John Tupper, beaten, shot several times and repeatedly stabbed. When police spotted the Cadillac, they found Jacobson at the wheel. The next day, they charged him with murder...
...Philadelphia's once elegant North 33rd Street stands a red brick Victorian house surrounded by trash, garbage and human excrement. Children and dogs play in the yard, while adults lean over a 6-ft.-high wooden barricade and shout obscenities at passersby. "This is our house, and we are not going to let the city take it," vows a young woman. "We will defend our house. We will defend our children...
...since the 1959 Cuban revolution has Florida's glittering gold coast experienced anything quite like it: almost daily landings, from Key Biscayne to Palm Beach, of rickety wooden boats, some with homemade sails and tree trunks for masts. All are packed, gunwale to gunwale, with Haitian refugees carrying their possessions on their backs and in small wicker baskets. Fleeing high unemployment, food shortages and political repression at home, they have made the dangerous 800-mile voyage across the open Caribbean in search of a better life...
...companies on the West Coast, well pay rewards people for doing what they are supposed to do: go to work regularly and on time. Some results have been impressive. Reports James Parsons, 59, president of Parsons Pine Products of Ashland, Ore., maker of nearly 80% of the nation's wooden mousetrap bases: "Our absenteeism has dropped 30%, and our tardiness is almost zero." Parsons' incentive: an extra day's pay at the end of every month to workers who are punctual. Reichhold Chemicals' fiberglass manufacturing division in Irwindale, Calif, offers half an hour's extra pay for each week...
...million visitors annually. Crowds pushing shopping carts stroll through the grounds, consuming heroic quantities of junk food and observing the outlandish garb that customers wear as part of the ritual. Henry Cortez, a robust Mexican American, sports a huge straw hat and tows Grandson Douglas around in a wooden wagon. "This is my flea-market hat," says Cortez, who has been going to the San Jose market almost every weekend since 1960. "And this is my flea-market wagon. I come to visit people...