Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL'S CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. This delightful potpourri of holiday song, dance and frivolity continues to charm children -- and their parents -- as engagingly as it has for the past 57 years. All the seasonal staples are there, from the Nutcracker's wooden soldiers and Santa's elves to the traditional show-closing Nativity scene in which, as usual, live camels, sheep and donkeys manage to upstage the Holy Family. In New York City, through...
That is true in other countries as well. Swedish school kids have bought and preserved 65,000 hectares (160,000 acres) of virgin rain forest in Costa Rica with money earned collecting old newspapers and recycling aluminum cans. Japanese students have mounted a campaign to eliminate disposable wooden chopsticks and replace them with reusable plastic models. Children in one Soviet town were able to persuade the sluggish local government to hasten construction of a roundabout that would allow traffic to bypass the center of town and thus reduce pollution. In Brazil the number of nongovernment environmental groups has swelled from...
...front of them, two women sit at one of the wooden-toned formica tables that dot the middle of the room. They wear trendy black leather jackets and puff on Marlborough cigarettes as they chat with a uniformed security officer. An English Beat tune plays in the background...
...head was pounding and crippling cramps ran through my legs. Near fainting from fatigue and water depletion, I rested my head on the back of the hard wooden seat and stared up at the ornate ceiling of Sanders Theater, wondering how much longer this torture would continue...
...wooden horse may have worked in Troy, but it was of little use in New Haven...