Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asleep in the two-story wooden house in Nagata that she shared with her mother Yoshie and father Shinichi, both 81, when the quake hit. Emiko and her father were unhurt, but a heavy wardrobe had fallen on Yoshie, pinning the frail old woman to the floor. As fire began roaring through the neighborhood, father and daughter struggled frantically to free her, without success. ``I'm going to stay here,'' her father said, but Emiko pleaded, ``You can't, father. You must live, for mother's sake!'' Emiko pulled him out of the house seconds before it was engulfed...
...gray now, some of them returned last week to remember and to grieve. They walked, once again, down the street of death from the rail spur to the ramps where they saw the last of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. They shuddered before the gas chambers, peered into the wooden barracks, stood in silence amid the ruins of crematoria dynamited by the Nazis in a failed attempt to hide the evidence of the greatest crime. They saw, they remembered, they mourned--and they wondered if the world would ever learn the lessons of Auschwitz and the Holocaust...
...rise buildings that sit on rubber pads that act like shock absorbers, a common feature of hospital design, have proved their worth. In Kobe it appears that few, if any, buildings constructed after 1980, when a stricter code was enacted, were destroyed. And the widespread wreckage of wooden houses in Kobe is no clue to what might happen elsewhere; wooden houses in Northridge, built to a very different pattern, stood up well...
...through tunnels of smoke with handkerchiefs covering their faces; the military practices helicopter rescues. In countless towns and cities, fire departments roll out their earthquake-simulation machines. These room-size boxes, equipped with a table, two chairs, a bookshelf, a gas cooking stove and a kerosene heater on a wooden floor, are set on shock absorbers and shudder exactly like an earthquake, escalating in force from 3 to 7 on the Japanese version of the Richter scale. The willing victim is supposed to learn the tricks of quake survival: turn off the stove, open the door and hide under...
...city of Nishinomiya, nine miles outside the port of Kobe, contains many rooms the same size as those simulators. They tend to be in two-story, traditional wooden houses built in the years just after World War II. The roofs of such houses are heavy blue or brown tile. The walls are a thin lattice of light wood finished with stucco. The effect, says Laurence Kornfield, a San Francisco chief building inspector familiar with the style, is ``a lot like putting a heavy book up on top of a frame of pencils...