Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...synagogue itself, on the exterior, stunk of decay like many of the other buildings in Leningrad, but the opulence and beauty displayed inside the temple was surprising. Candles were everywhere. Ornately carved, well kept wooden benches lined the room. Painted white pillars towered throughout the room...
...military expert in Iraq told TIME that some of the mustard gas has been fired at enemy targets in artillery shells, although most of it is put into large drums, loaded onto wooden pallets and then dropped from helicopters and Soviet-made 11-76 transport planes. Each pallet contains six drums and weighs about five tons. The drums burst on impact, spreading the gas over a wide area. The use of gas undoubtedly contributed to Iraq's recent victories. Says Ricardo Fraile, a Paris-based consultant on chemical and biological warfare: "The chemical weapons used by the Third World...
...Both are funded for the most part by donations collected on the street, and anyone who shakes a donations box earns a commission in cash. In People's Park, the site of the famous 1969 demonstrations, people leave clothing, books, and anything else they don't want in a wooden "free bin," Berkeley has a shelter for the homeless; in addition, one can get away easily with sleeping on a living room sofa in one of the student residential co-ops at the University of California...
...headed for U.S. Navy ships on the horizon, there to set down its cargo just as gingerly. Meanwhile, 400 yds. to the west, a steady stream of landing craft nosed into a heavily fortified jetty and began collecting a seemingly endless line of forklift pallets lashed to more wooden crates. "The beach has been working 24 hours a day for the past two days," reported a Marine officer. "They are taking out the heavy equipment first -trucks, bulldozers, engineering equipment...
Zetra, the skating arena in Sarajevo, is a pleasant enough place. Set in a valley just below the stadium where the Olympic flame burns, it spreads like the curved wing of a dove .... stretched out over the snow. Inside, there are comfortable wooden seats, polite ushers and concession stands that sell chocolate and local brandy, a better fix against a winter night than popcorn and beer. Yet to hear of the doings in the figure-skating competition that took place in this outwardly cheerful spot last week was to confuse sport with war dispatches. There were hints of dark intrigue...