Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grenadians have been questioned at a jerry-built camp behind the nearly finished Point Salines airport on the island's southwestern tip. Most prisoners were kept in tents behind snarls of barbed wire, but some were obliged to crawl inside 8-ft. by 8-ft. wooden crates and spend 24 hours there. Finally, last week, Washington ordered the unseemly cages dismantled...
Suggestions included use of wooden goal-posts, increased police security, and loudspeaker warnings...
Reardon said that wooden goalposts were no more safe than metal ones, explaining that he had witnessed a death caused by a falling wooden goalpost...
...point of contention is the ticket price: $20 by mail. Although some other tickets have become available at reduced prices, many feel the unprecedented charge is not in keeping with history. "$20 for a seat at the Yale-Harvard football game? A hard wooden seat with the paint peeling off? At the mercy of the elements and the drunks sitting behind you at the Yale Bowl?" wrote Yale grad David Holahan recently in The New York Times in an article explaining why he would be listening to the radio November...
After a brief investigation, the officers discovered that the wooden arm blocking the entrance to the Apley Court parking lot behind Claverly Hall had been broken...