Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulk of the repairs will involve replacing the concrete fins with 1300 aluminum fins. Already, about 250 of these supports have been removed in favor of wooden supports, though officials say most of the work will be done this spring and summer...
...pocket and soon had a job as a guard at an Alcoa Aluminum plant. Saving carefully, he managed to amass $400 to purchase a small plot of land in south-central Los Angeles, then a poor but peaceful community. With his own hands, he built a three-room wooden shack and soon sent home to Gould, Ark., for wife Elsie, four daughters and his father, a minister in the Holiness Church...
...acre farm. Family members drive a BMW, Lincoln Continental, Mercedes and Rolls-Royce, and live in such affluent suburbs as Sherman Oaks, Altadena and Palos Verdes Estates. But Hawkins continues to inhabit the tidy three-bedroom home, American flag fluttering over the garage, that long ago replaced the wooden shack. Dressed in shirt and tie and black cowboy boots, he works daily at the grocery store. He gives birthday parties for neighborhood children and often pays for their shoes and haircuts. He has set up a nonprofit foundation to send Watts-area children on field trips and away to camp...
Donning a battered top hat, Conference Organizer James Fraser, 53, called the meeting to order by banging a soup pot with a wooden spoon. The members of his audience, who ranged from stock-market dabblers to professionals from Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter, wore buttons proclaiming slogans like THINK FOR YOURSELF. Said Fraser: "Contrary opinion teaches us to be thoughtful nonconformists, keeping us from being led astray by popular opinion...
...with the images of Washington buildings. Weary sightseers can relax at dozens of tables. On a large stage in the atrium, the Evans Co. presents free entertainment-ballet, jazz and puppet shows-seven days and six evenings a week. Twenty-five shops display items such as lingerie, confections and wooden toys. The Pavilion provides gastronomic relief from the bland fare at the Department of Commerce cafeteria down the avenue. There are five restaurants and 16 fast-food counters, which offer curries, crêpes and tacos...