Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four students are assigned to a cadaver. Their tools include forceps and scalpels, but also grislier instruments which might look more appropriate at a hardware store: hacksaws, wooden mallets, and pliers for cutting ribs...
Green velvet, black silk, silver spandex and tweed jackets flash as 30 men and women line up by team outside the shiny wooden dance floor...
...local radio stations took to beginning broadcasts about the day's schedule three hours before the first turn of the wheels, updating continually with bulletins on the tour's progress. The enthusiasm communicated itself to the candidates, who responded in kind; not only Clinton but Gore, who can be wooden and repetitious in a formal setting, relaxed and campaigned in an easy, friendly manner...
...rich but checkered history of Stanford football, sporting supplicants who have placed their fannies on Stanford Stadium's wooden-bench seats in prayerful anticipation of just such an event have spent more than their share of New Year's days sorely disappointed. There have been moments of brilliance, of course. On occasion, there have even been seasons of considerable distinction. But the chroniclers of sport have always preferred to measure excellence in terms of eras. Eras have been in short supply recently at Stanford. So too have been coaching dynasties. There's certainly been nothing like the dynasty Bill Walsh...
...surrounding countryside, newly developed irrigation systems nourished the barley, wheat, flax and other crops that fed the growing cities. Period drawings from Sumer, part of Mesopotamia, provide the earliest known evidence of wheels -- essentially wooden planks rounded at the ends and fitted together in a circle -- which were used on ox-drawn carts and, later, chariots. Sailing ships embarked on distant trading missions. By 3000 B.C., the world's first written language, cuneiform, had appeared on small clay tablets, replacing the strings of marked clay tokens that merchants had previously used to keep track of their transactions. And at least...