Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...benches and chairs, all his own designs. During the summer, he recalled, he often worked for hours with the big doors open, clouds of gnats hovering around his face and mouth, while a Secret Service agent took refuge from the heat and the bugs in one of the little wooden guard booths...
When you think of college basketball coaches, the great strategists come to mind: John Wooden, Dean Smith, Bobby Knight. NBA coaches are getting better. Very few are left who wear those medallions on big metal chains around their necks. The new trend setters have been the three Lakers' coaches since Bill Sharman--the ones who lost out to Richard Gere for the lead in "American Gigolo...
Christian went over to the President's desk in the Oval Office to see if the little black marks made by Dwight Eisenhower's golf cleats were still in the wooden floor. "I'll be darned," said Christian. "They finally got them...
...group of nurses stands out in white. A boy, oblivious to the music washing around him, tilts a can of pop to his lips, his mother's arm on his shoulder. The minister thanks several local companies for giving food to his congregation. He clambers down from the wooden platform to talk to two elderly women. Richard Daley, the late mayor's son, says a few words but looks uncomfortable speaking on this side of the fence and disappears soon after. The minister is grateful anyway. In the background, the police car is parked, the tennis courts are full...
...Santa Ana winds swept out of the Mojave Desert, gusting through communities south of Los Angeles at speeds topping 60 m.p.h. In Anaheim, just before dawn, the high winds blew down a power line, setting the fronds of a palm tree afire. Sparks showered onto the dry wooden shingles of a nearby rooftop, which exploded into flames. Sped by the winds, the sparks leaped from roof to roof, from street to street. For three hours, the fire raged out of control as residents in a four-block area of apartment complexes scrambled out of its path and fire-fighting units...