Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 19 the capacitors were flown from Los Angeles to London aboard a TWA aircraft and stored in a warehouse. (By some accounts, British officials substituted fake devices for the actual capacitors.) Nine days later, as the large wooden crate containing the cargo was about to be loaded onto an Iraqi Airways flight bound for Baghdad, U.S. and British customs officials seized the goods...
Twenty-eight Harvard students sat uncomfortably in the wooden pews of the Lookout Baptist Church in Fayette County, West Virginia, as the minister solicited student souls for salvation...
Armed with axes, scythes and stout wooden clubs, rival groups of Romanians and ethnic Hungarians closed in on each other on a balmy spring evening last week. For a while only taunts and epithets were hurled. Then weapons flashed, and blood stained the Square of the Roses in downtown Tirgu Mures, an industrial city in Transylvania. By the time the army intervened, three people were dead and scores wounded...
...troubles are not over. Her husband works odd jobs, earning $30 on a good day. They live in a $130-a-month hovel that makes a shanty sound luxurious. An old sofa draped with a sheet, a small wooden table and two battered chairs grace the living area. Three store calendars supply the only color on the drab walls. As a fly buzzes lazily by, Connie asks if she is afraid living here. "I'm not scared," she replies. Connie shakes her head and declares, "I'd sleep with...
...display is divided into nine interculturegeographic areas, said Brown. In the Northwestarea stand totem poles and a largeyellow-and-brown exterior house post carved tolook like a tree. A wooden bear perches near thetop and paw prints trace its path up from theground...