Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chang testified that, after practicing martial arts in a children's play-ground, he fell asleep on a "wooden board supported by two springs." He said Blair woke him and told him to move--and although he obeyed, the officer harassed him, twisting his arm behind his back and slamming him against a police...
Cold morning temperatures forced the Leverett House resident tutor to take refuge in a post office along the way. "My feet were like wooden boards, and I thought frostbite might set in," he said...
...students and two Harvard fine arts graduate students were able to finish a 13-meter tall facade, and they will return to Mantua next June to complete the house, which is being built as an extension of the museum. The group is constructing the model on a wooden framework which Burns and his team covered with a plastic foam, painted to look like whitewashed stonework, Burns says...
...Melrose Park, they were welcomed by Donna Wilbur, a widow who lives downstairs with her teenage son. But two days later, a car nearly knocked the Sleds' 14-year-old nephew off his bike. "Nigger, what are you doing around here?" the driver shouted. A week later, two wooden fence posts crashed through Wilbur's dining room window, the penalty for welcoming the Sleds to the neighborhood. "It doesn't seem like America with people acting like this," she says...
...Across the street four young men laughed and shouted, "Let the car burn. Niggers don't need to be in Melrose Park." One night as Stephanie set out for her cashier's job, several youths waved a rope and taunted her with threats of a lynching. Later a crude wooden cross was burned on the lawn...