Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other. After sueing him for lost wages and then stealing his snowblower, Sully isn't surprised to find Carl curled up on his couch later that night. As vicious as their relationship may be, Sully is still a source of comfort. And when Sully wins his lawyer's wooden leg in the weekly poker game, Wirf knows it is only a matter of time before he gets it back...
...with certainty that this latest blast bears some of the Unabomber's trademarks -- the return address on the package named a fictitious sender in Northern California, where the bomber is thought to reside, and the device, like earlier ones, was an intricately built pipe bomb inside a handmade wooden box -- they have not as yet determined what links his various targets. And although a task force of 25 agents from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the U.S. Postal Service is working around the clock on the case in San Francisco, investigators seem to have made...
...most information has come from the bombs themselves. Bit by blown-up bit, FBI investigators have pieced together a psychological profile of their prey. They can tell by the handmade wooden boxes and by the tiny, handcrafted screws that he is a meticulous, even compulsive, man. He spends hours, they say, cutting, filing and whittling little bits of metal and wood, removing any hints of their origin. According to retired FBI bomb expert James Ronay, the bomber also assembles and disassembles the whole thing several times before he is through. He has "an uncontrollable urge to fool with this thing...
Once at the audience, TIME's delegation discovered that their seats were not in the front after all but off to the side. The Pope arrived on the marble stage to rapturous applause. Seated on a wooden throne, he read out a statement on obedience in eight languages -- including Japanese -- took greetings from international delegations, pronounced a papal blessing and departed. The 90-minute audience was nearly over. And so, it seemed, was any hope of a closer encounter...
...suddenly at their side was Navarro, whispering the long-awaited words: "The Holy Father is going to see you privately." Ushered into a reception room, TIME's visitors soon saw a smiling but slightly stooped John Paul, who entered leaning on the wooden cane made necessary by his recent bone- replacement surgery. He looked otherwise pink-cheeked and robust. Of his mind, there was no doubt. To their congratulations for being chosen Man of the Year, John Paul expressed thanks, then added, mischievously, "I see that in the past, you have given this honor to Lech Walesa and to Pope...