Word: woodenness
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...million complex is the most comprehensive Lincoln exhibit so far and the only presidential library run by a state government. It has 1,500 manuscripts, including a copy of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's handwriting, and troves of artifacts like his small wooden deathbed. It's also the glitziest presidential museum, a special-effects parade of ghostly holograms and mannequin Abes. "Lincoln is presented in a way people can easily digest," said executive director Richard Norton Smith. "If you want the icon, go to the memorial...
...wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo and Omo laundry detergent, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5¢ each. Hon's first stop of the day is Xa Nhon village, where he ties up and makes deliveries to half a dozen small shops. The local farmers may be poor, but they have the same needs and desires as middle-class urbanites, and Hon's business is growing. He sells hundreds of thousands of soap and shampoo packets a month, enough...
...Church. Instead, Ratzinger delivered a simple testament to the life and papacy of John Paul II. Afterwards, we had to hustle through a number of security checkpoints to reach the colonnade alongside St. Peter's Basilica, where we watched as a dozen major duomos carried the simple wooden coffin up the steps of the Basilica. And as they reached the top step, with hundreds of world leaders, senior clerics and millions of faithful looking on, the giant bells of St. Peter's began to toll their final farewell to the Pope...
...nationwide political role. In 1981 he refused a government offer to build an administration building for KwaZulu in Ulundi, the capital, fearing that acceptance would indebt him to Pretoria. Instead, the homeland saved $18 million from tax revenues and constructed a building adorned with murals and carved wooden doors that is widely viewed as one of the most elegant structures in South Africa...
...world's toniest contact sport, remained haughtily and expensively cloistered. No more. On weekend afternoons around the country, crowds of tailgating fans show up to watch scores of horses thunder across neatly turfed ten-acre greenswards. Willow mallets whistle--pock--as high-charging riders smack a 4-oz. white wooden ball. Brooks Fire-stone, 49, of the tire Firestones, reports, "It's no longer a social, rich man's game...