Word: woodenness
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...backroom plotting of previous years prompted talk of a general revival in party fortunes. Many delegates surprised themselves by concluding they could support any of the candidates, even though they range from Europhile to Europhobe, from 38 to 65, from right-wing to right-of-center, from electrifying to wooden. Yet they agree that making a smart choice is crucial to turning the Tories from also-ran to credible alternative. Labour probably has at least another four years in office, and whatever its woes - much in evidence at its own painfully regimented party conference - the Tories' first task...
Jeff plays tour guide, walking us to a larger classroom, where students sit at long wooden tables laden with dozens of wooden boxes. “It’s a goal-oriented religion,” he says. If you have a goal, he tells us, Scientology will help you accomplish...
During that July visit to the Church of Scientology, Jeff offered to show Allen and me how auditing works. We entered a small, windowless room. There were L. Ron Hubbard quotes in garish script tacked up on the walls, and a cherry wooden desk with chairs on either side of it. I could have been at a professor’s office hours...
Crossing borders has been an arduous business since 9/11, and entering northern Sri Lanka is no different - if anything the delays are longer, the checks more thorough and the wait, outside a row of wooden sheds in a baking tropical sun, more grueling than arriving at Heathrow or JFK. In those places, of course, immigration officials are trying to keep terrorists out. Here, however, the officials are the terrorists...
...supposed conspiracy came to light in the wake of a series of fires that destroyed several buildings, including the governor’s mansion. Even in a city of wooden houses that was—both literally and figuratively—a tinderbox, the number and frequency of the blazes sparked anxiety. And then a slave was caught running from the scene of one fire, and wary New Yorkers–who read all about slave revolts in the Caribbean and South Carolina–began to cry, “The Negroes are rising!” Blacks...