Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yard section of the street is given over every Sunday to a complicated obstacle course of traffic cones. At one end of this maze lies the showpiece, a three foot high wooden ramp. Trevor occasionally soars off this slanted plane, putting up to seven feet of air between himself and the ramp...
...sharp enough to cut the strong, matted roots of the high-stemmed prairie grass and turn up the rich earth below for planting. The slick surface of the moldboard (the portion of the plow above the share, the cutting edge) kept the plow from gumming up, the curse of wooden moldboards. By 1839 Deere was making 10 plows a year, then 40, and by 1850 production had soared to 2,100 and the huge farm-machinery company...
While the food may come up short with some, the restaurant is a hopping place. Border is a bad place to go in a rush--even on weekday nights, the wait for one of their heavy wooden tables often lasts as long as an hour. Once inside, soak up the Border's festive atmosphere while waiting even longer for the fajitas. Clothing worn to the Border tends to soak up more than just the surroundings, and leaves the place smelling mesquaite grilled...
Toscanini's spacious shop is definitivewarehouse-chic. Wooden beams line the ceiling, thewalls are unadorned brick and flowers sit in glassbottles on every table. In the window next door tothe shop, we could watch the ice cream-makingprocess at work. And with single scoops at $1.35and double scoops at $2.14, Toscanini's is highlycost-efficient--that is, if you don't factor inthe 85-cent T fare...
...places have borne witness to so much modern history as the fifth-floor corner conference room at No. 4 Staraya Ploshchad, a few blocks from the Kremlin. Seated in brown leather swivel chairs around a wooden table, the ruling Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made its decisions to invade Afghanistan, reduce nuclear weapons, settle questions of Kremlin succession. It was in this room that Mikhail Gorbachev first discussed reform policies that would change the world and bring the U.S.S.R. to an end. Today the headquarters of the once powerful party belongs to Russia's new democratic...