Word: woodenness
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...Highlands have abundant coffee fields, pepper farms and rubber trees, but much of that recent prosperity has bypassed the Montagnards?French for "mountain dwellers"?who live in grievous poverty in tin-walled homes or rickety wooden stilt houses. They say their land has been encroached upon by Vietnamese migrants from the lowlands and that they have been subjected to religious persecution because many follow a form of Protestantism that isn't officially sanctioned...
...special train waiting to carry [Eleanor Roosevelt] north was at the little wooden station. Soldiers lifted the flag-draped casket into the last car where other soldiers, sailors and marines would stand guard over it. The band played on & on; the drums echoed hollowly in the hot valley. Leaning on [an aide's] arm ... she steadily went aboard. The train moved slowly out of Warm Springs. At Atlanta, steel-helmeted soldiers lined the station platform, crowds filled windows overlooking the smoky terminal ... The train rumbled on, past fields where farmers tied their mules and stood at the fences with their...
...moment we arrived on the island it started to pour, and we had to scrap all the meaningful and rewarding team-building activities we had planned as we waited under a wooden shelter by the dock for the rain to subside...
...PHOTO/EITAN HESS-ASHKENAZI The line of the security fence is marked out by a red and green line of wooden posts and railings...
...hours of June 3 but didn't dare to venture outside until well past dawn. The sight that greeted him is so commonplace in Aceh as to be almost banal: Ishak, a 51-year-old farmer who was standing watch over Alue Bieng that night, was sprawled on a wooden platform used by the village's night watchmen, his T shirt pocked with bullet holes. Beneath the platform lay a pool of blood and the brass casings of the seven bullets that killed...