Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, today said the U.S. should establish fulldiplomatic relations with Hanoithis year. McCain, who spent six years in North Vietnamese prisons, made the statement in Hanoi after watching Vietnamese officials hand over to the U.S. military 10 plain wooden boxes holding what are believed to be the remains of American M.I.A.s. Though Vietnam veterans groups still favor a go-slow approach,TIME senior writer Bruce Nelansays McCain's moral authority will probably lend the Clinton Administration credibility inshepherding U.S. investment efforts in Vietnam, which already total $525 million since...
...Advocate has been a target of repeated larceny in recent weeks--the president's chair, a wooden seat with the Advocate seal carved into it, was stolen about two weeks ago, Aiyar said...
...high heel goes way, way back. Sixteenth-century Turkey witnessed the birth of the stiletto heel's earliest ancestor, the chopine, a wooden clog that could reach stilt height. Later, a more narrowly heeled shoe for women emerged during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. And in the eighteenth century, the French began their fashion influence with lovely decorated leather or silk shoes on high heels set under the arch of the foot...
...between Connecticut and Seton Hall on March 6, and even though the game was in South Orange, New Jersey, the gymnasium was clearly in the throes of blue-and-white Huskiemania. An 11-year-old girl, Caitlin DeAngelis, wore a Connecticut T shirt and a handmade necklace of tiny wooden boxes whose letters spelled UCONN HUSKIES WOMEN. Caitlin, who traveled from Willimantic, Connecticut, with her parents and three brothers, said, "My favorite player is Jennifer Rizotti. We're both short, and we're both Italian...
...Enter, enter," the tall, skinny man right inside the door beckons. All I can see are red wooden signs that circle the room: Danger Third Rail, they read. The crowd inside--one baseball cap, three berets--is mostly hip people in their mid-40s. I put the cigarette back in my pocket...