Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been hacked to connect two rivers. On one bank rests a 300-ton steamship with its nose pointed up the 40-degree slope of a mountain, looking like a stranded whale waiting to climb a steep beach. A series of ropes connect the ship to massive human-powered wooden winches and a lone bulldozer. The engineer, who designed the system to tackle a 20-degree grade, has quite fearing for the lives of the Indian workers if a metal clasp or something else should snap. Although the director has been told repeatedly that he is attempting the impossible, he perseveres...
...squash and racquetball courts, several of the wooden floorboards have been uprooted and broken by the moisture...
...wooden casket was then placed on an army gun carriage and taken in a slow moving procession to the cemetery A 21 gun salute echoed across the mountain peaks of central Lebanon as the 34 year old slam leader was lowered into his grave to the drumbeat of an army band
...three hutlike wooden crates on Le Havre's Quai de Moselle last week looked unremarkable. But when they were finally winched aboard the French freighter Borodine for a five-day trip to the Soviet port of Riga, they caused an immediate intensification of the long-running dispute between the U.S. and its Western European allies over Washington's sanctions against the Soviet natural gas pipeline. The shipment amounted to an open French challenge of the U.S. embargo: each of the crates contained a French-made and U.S.-designed compressor that will help propel Siberian gas through...
...braved water cannons to add flowers, greenery and pictures of Walesa and Pope John Paul II to the now famous cross laid out in Victory Square to honor the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. But late last week authorities sealed off the square with a sturdy 6-ft.-high gray wooden fence. Still, as one veteran Western diplomat in Warsaw said of these latest acts of derring-do: "This is what Poles do best. But what does it gain them...