Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LIKES OF WOODY Allen and Mia Farrow on the witness stand, Room 341 of the State Supreme Court building in lower Manhattan can seldom be described as "hushed." The din of construction work and the shriek of police sirens outside easily penetrate the courtroom windows. The government-issue wooden chairs pop and creak when their occupants change position, which, given the occasional lulls of legalese, happens regularly...
...seems an lawfully imperialistic game, croquet, when you play it amidst plan trees under the ten-degrees Latitude sun. I'd never played before, never even handled a wooden mallet or watched a ball roll Lazily through a wicket...
...simple game, a lot like miniature golf, only it's played on real grass, with a bigger, less rubbery ball and a clunky wooden mallet instead of a slim metal club. And with wickets and stakes instead of holes. And all-natural obstacles--no electronic windmills with flashing lights...
...unnoticed. Street light dimly filters through the thick layers of blue paint and grime that coat all four windows. Sound echoes off the barren walls, and the ceiling leaks so badly that buckets must be placed strategically when it rains. The only furniture is a single high-backed wooden chair, a place of honor for such spiritual leaders as Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. For most of its eight years, the cavernous mosque on the third floor of a white brick building along Jersey City's Kennedy Boulevard has attracted scant interest. "We are a peaceful people; we come here...
...money to gamble with doesn't mean I can afford any more energy taxes or income taxes or any damn taxes," said Doug Smith Jr., 46, whose thick and callused hands testify to his part-time job as a carpet installer. "Enough!" Heads nodded up and down along the wooden table, one of 40 set up in the brightly lit but smoky meeting hall where about 300 mostly working- class gamblers were quietly plotting for a piece of the $3,500 pot. "I voted for Clinton because I figured he'd stick it to the fat cats," said auto mechanic...