Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Normal Heights, perched above San Diego's Mission Valley canyon, relatively new $250,000 Spanish-style residences with courtyards and swimming & pools often sit next to 60-year-old wooden bungalows and duplexes that initially cost as little as $10,000. The flames that leaped out of the valley and slashed through the overgrown chaparral made few distinctions when they reached the canyon rim. Abraham Nasatir, 80, a professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University and an expert on California lore, watched the fire consume some 500,000 historical papers he had collected. He was working...
...airport, the story continued, by Wolfram Bossert and driven in a rickety Volkswagen down a potholed dirt road into a virtual slum. "My father's house," Rolf remembered, "was nothing more than a wooden hut." Inside, it was meanly furnished with a bed, a table, a few chairs and a closet. As he entered the house, Rolf recalled, "my father trembled with excitement. I saw that he had tears in his eyes...
Pausing beside rows of wooden benches, Russell watched with delight, almost envy, as children from four different public schools acted out familiar urban scenes. Only later did I realize how unusual it was for a politician to be mingling with schoolkids in the midst of an election year with several hundred ticket-holding voters waiting in the hallway...
Puccio, standing stiffly behind a wooden lectern ten feet from the jury, relentlessly disputed the central tenet of the prosecution's case: that insulin had been used to cause Mrs. Von Bulow's two comas. With increasing vehemence, he punctuated his argument with the phrase "No insulin injection!" as he recapitulated testimony by the defense's medical experts...
...women and children were saved; many of them had clung to floating bamboo rooftops or pieces of driftwood. One 14-year-old girl clutched a piece of timber for 18 hours before she was pulled to safety. A man was said to have held on to his wooden bed for two days before a vessel found...