Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...married father, says he was beaten as police drove to Brooklyn's 70th Precinct station house. But it was after he got there that the real nightmare began: as he tells it, he was strip-searched, then two cops took him into a bathroom and shoved a wooden pole, perhaps belonging to a toilet plunger, into his rectum. (Once Louima was hospitalized--after 1 1/2 hours at the station house--doctors found he had a ripped bladder and a punctured lower intestine.) Louima says the officers then forced the stick into his mouth, breaking his front teeth. As all this...
...else done, we would take the fancy headline type back to the wooden cases and carefully drop the letters into their compartments, thunk, thunk, thunk, a contented coda to Whitman's bawdy song. And finally we would turn the lights out and close the shop door, taking a last glance at the press dimly highlighted by the glow from street lamps. We were sure it would be there for us the next week...
Another attraction is the competition itself. Purists such as ucla's legendary coach John Wooden think women's basketball is more watchable than men's basketball. It's certainly more structured and team-oriented than the helter-skelter N.B.A. game, and that aesthetic has helped the W.N.B.A. attract older fans who miss the traditional pace of basketball. At first look, W.N.B.A. play was somewhat sloppy, but in the past few weeks it has tightened up. Last week in Charlotte, the 7,266 fans were treated to a thrilling game won by the Liberty, 65-63, on two free throws...
After a city inspection in February 1996, Alami was forced to close down his wooden spray booth and stop painting cars. When he applied for a permit to build a metal one, he said he was told that he could not get the permit because the property was not zoned for auto body work...
...house had been tattooed in other ways as well. As we moved a wooden futon from the first floor to the second, we noticed the words "STEVE IS A HOMO" carved into its side. Someone had been a little thoughtless with the dry-erase board in the kitchen too--the marker sitting next to it was a permanent one, so a few names, phone numbers and scribbles, including a half scratched-out face, had been indelibly inscribed. On one of the mattresses upstairs, we even found a small and strategically placed bloodstain. We could only wonder...