Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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April J. Werner and Ben Bergstein, vendors from the Volga River Trading Company, sold products from Russia, Armenia and other eastern European countries. They had a large display of wooden nestling dolls called matryoshka, meaning "little mother" in Russian. They have been selling their products at the bazaar for four years...
...seems the most hairsplitting of technicalities. In Moses: A Life, Kirsch writes, "Against the blow of a wooden staff upon a dry rock, a lifetime of struggle, hardship and faithful service counted for nothing." Some analysts think biblical editors expunged Moses' real sin, whatever it was. Others say his only sin is failure, his inability to ennoble the slave generation. Not so fast, argues Friedman: Moses has been edging toward usurping God's prerogatives for some time, "and now he steps over the line. He changes a miracle. Nobody had ever done that before...
...walk the hot, sun-splashed pathways of the village, past the wooden huts with ornate carved doors--they look like Swiss chalets--and a shrine, a flakapau, which displays blue wooden figures, the size of large chess pawns, that represent ancestors. A medicine man sits in his doorway; he cannot rise to greet us because his right leg is greatly swollen from a snakebite. He has treated his wound successfully. Some children follow us as we go, but most are too self-possessed to become groupies. When approached, they respond to questions politely, but mainly they seem to be studying...
Well, good luck finding the logo, for now. The FSC and others in the certification movement acknowledge that the number of good-wood products carrying the seal is quite small--not even 1% of all wooden wares sold in the U.S. "Certification has not hit the mainstream consumer market yet," says Francis Grant-Suttie of the World Wildlife Fund. "But when key retailers stock these products, consumers will become very aware, very quickly...
...therefore decreed that on the 747, pilots should sit above the flight deck so the nose could be opened up and take cargo. The 747's ultimate fate, he thought, would be as a flying Mack truck. Boeing showed him a wooden mock-up of the 747's flight deck, in the hump above the nose. He foraged around and came upon the space behind the flight deck, the rest of the hump. "What is this for?" he asked. "A crew rest area," said a Boeing engineer. "Rest area?" barked Trippe. "This is going to be reserved for passengers...