Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victims of the carnage were among some 150 Dominicans, mostly young women, who had paid up to $600 each for illegal passage to Puerto Rico aboard a 50-ft. wooden fishing boat. The group had set out at 2 a.m. Tuesday from Death's Head Beach in the town of Nagua, about 110 miles north of the capital of Santo Domingo. The ship was only four miles out to sea when, according to some survivors, its two outboard motors exploded. Since most of those aboard were unable to swim, many probably drowned within a few minutes of the accident...
Between 1977 and 1979, grandma went to every Columbia Lion football game; I missed a few road games. During those three years, we were as famous as the old wooden bleachers of Baker Field...
...offer $20 million to the first company that could figure out a way to cover Memorial Hall with scaffolding. After many plans were considered, the contract was finally offered to a brilliant architect and former pauper best known for his most recent triumph--enclosing the John Harvard Statue with wooden planks...
...anyway mentality; even on his visit to Detroit, only 30,000 turned out in the largely Polish community of Hamtramck. The Pontiff had made special contact for the first time with varied groups of U.S. Catholics -- Hispanics, American Indians, AIDS sufferers -- but his delivery was often wooden (English is not easy for him), and he was best on the few occasions when he could depart from ceremonial mechanics...
...crowds during his ten- day U. S. tour were sometimes surprisingly thin, and his speeches were sometimes wooden, but John Paul left behind the clearest statement yet of his desire to rein in an unruly American flock. A "good Catholic," he declared, is not free to follow his own conscience in place of the traditional moral teachings of the church...