Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief secular saint (there are no male contenders), on a line of products for sale. A posthumous endorsement, to be sure; but relic hunting, by definition, has to be posthumous. If the Virgin Mary had died surrounded by Chinese soup tureens and minor Hellenistic antiquities, instead of the wooden bench (workshop of St. Joseph, estimate 20 to 30 copper pieces) and the simple tin cup that presumably furnished her abode in Jerusalem, the rush for pious souvenirs would not have been greater...
...didn't like Buchanan, I should get out of Massachusetts, the thirty-something man in the green down jacket and brown standard issue pants told me as we stood there in the snow awaiting the candidate for whom he was shouldering two wooden-piked campaign placards...
...beer pitchers. A former employee of the Postal Service, he is now 59 years old. Bruce approaches the collection of colorful flags that rest by the front door, and selects his "recession flag," hanging it outside for all of Epsom to see. An old flier nailed to a wooden post announces a sale commemorating his marital difficulties, which culminated in what Bruce calls "the Great American Divorce." The radio by the desk plays soft dobro music...
...that we all know and love as friends here, the presidency seemed to offer that. Besides being confirmed as among the top of their class, what little kid wouldn't want to plop his or her feet up on the desk of the Oval Office and smoke a nice wooden pipe...
...member of the MIT Chinese Students' Club then displayed several acrobatic moves with a Chinese YoYo, a set of two sticks connected by a string that help balance a wooden barbell...