Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau at her side and 30,000 rain-soaked Canadians looking on, Queen Elizabeth II stood on a huge wooden platform outside the massive limestone buildings atop Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Though the Queen had visited Canada ten times before, this trip was unlike any other. She had left her country as it stood on the-brink of war in the South Atlantic. And her purpose was to preside over a ceremony in which Britain relinquished an arcane but important vestige of its control over the onetime colony. As the Queen signed the proclamation...
...Sawyer's carrot-colored hair peeked out from under a floppy fishing hat, and his bare feet dragged in the muddy water as he and Huck Finn floated lazily down the river on a makeshift wooden raft. Nothing could have been more American-only the river was not the Mississippi; it was the Dnieper. And the actor playing Tom Sawyer was freckle-faced Fedya Stukov, 9, from Moscow...
...midshipmen were sunk almost before the race began. They rowed to the starting line in a heavy, wooden Pocock shell better suited for the perpetually rough Severn River in Annapolis. But the Charles early Saturday morning was glass-smooth, and the Crimson oarsmen grabbed an early five-seat lead at the start, rowing at a sharp 42-stroke cadence...
Life in the village is like the tale behind the three bullet holes in the wooden door-terrifying, mysterious, obscured by fear. When the shooting began, eight members of the Ramón Portillo family had been squatting as refugees in the shuttered mansion once occupied by the village's wealthiest man, who owned all the cactus fields and a coffee finca (plantation) that stretched as far, it is said, as the volcano four miles away. On New Year's Day, guerrillas swept up the back road, firing into the village as they came. Ramón Portillo...
...stood, arms crossed, on points of high ground, hoping for a better view. Don Juan Portillo, 82, who was born in Osicala and served four years as village mayor in the 1930s, remained in the large front room of his house, a space that was empty except for straight wooden benches along each wall. Don Juan was philosophical about the future of Osicala. Said he: "Life here may cease to exist. We may have to leave here, but the land will always remain...