Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said he began patronizing the restaurant in his law school days, spent many early mornings as president drinking Wursthaus coffee and preparing for meetings in the cafe's dark wooden booths...
...almost a routine night for native constable Simeon Tsnakapesh as he patrolled the streets of Davis Inlet, a ramshackle village of about 500 Innu Indians on Labrador's north-east coast. Alerted by a neighbor's complaint, he tracked a group of noisy youths to an abandoned wooden shack near the ice- locked government wharf. Prying open the door, the cop found a horrifying scene: six youths, ages 12 to 14, sniffing deadly gasoline fumes from green garbage bags on the floor of the unheated building. "You couldn't hear nothing but the wheeze from the bags," relates Tsnakapesh...
...security detail" by dispatching it on errands or bumping it from FBI planes to make room for his wife Alice. Former Attorney General William Barr ordered Sessions to pay back taxes for using his chauffeured limousine for commuting to the office and to refund nearly $10,000 for a wooden fence installed by the agency around his house. At a 90-minute Saturday press conference, Sessions defended his record and blamed the report on "an animus, an anger, an animosity by Mr. Barr for Mr. Sessions...
There's only one thing worse than business books: business novels. A new spate -- with titles like The Quadrant Solution and Flying Fox -- dispense the usual wooden phrasing and boring platitudes with, occasionally, a clunky hint of sex. Quadrant offers a numbing exchange about business expansion, interrupted by a long kiss. From the steamy dialogue in Fox: "Relax," she said. "Have another glass of water." Puh-leeze...
...toughest test was with the housekeeping staff. Ron Jones, assistant housekeeper, who had rounded up a horseshoe team and beaten the Bushes, father and sons, presented the President with two wooden horseshoes. Everybody cried and hugged...