Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Juba is a city of wanderers roaming hopelessly through muddy streets in a desperate search for food. Silent women with empty plastic buckets throng the 2-acre Konyo-Konyo Market, scavenging through its hundreds of barren wooden stalls. Only weeds, leaves and lily pods are for sale, at 50 cents a miserable bunch. Even the richest cannot find food here. A civil servant like Michael Apollo eats only one bowl of boiled weeds a day and sends his family to beg at emergency feeding centers. Everywhere people thrust themselves forward, baring their bony chests and screaming, "Look how hungry...
Another Math Department bystander darted into his office and returned a few seconds later with a large, awkward wooden object which says was a Renaissance-period ancestor of the flute. After demonstrating how to play the instrument, he passed it around among his friends, some of whom acknowledged that they were already familiar with a modern-day woodwind...
After that ordinance passed, private sources paid to set up the scene depicting the birth of Jesus, which consisted of a wooden shelter and several figures...
...fire burned a field equipment storage center that cuts into the side of the ITT, which faces Bright Hockey Center. The fire destroyed the wooden section of a security fence which protects the storage center...
Yesterday, the ITT wall and lawn equipment near the wooden fence were still covered with soot. But the fire apparantly did not extend through the entire storage center since most of the fence is metal chain link...