Word: woodenness
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Summers looks at home, playing with blocks and using crayons to record their results, but his frame looks a little large for the child-sized wooden chair...
...hobbled by a lack of funding--he heads across town to the customs house in Phnom Penh. Earlier this year, Tranet prevented a Frenchman from bribing a customs official to let him leave with an 18th century Buddha stolen from a pagoda in Posat province. The 5.3-ft. wooden statue now stands in a back-room workshop at Cambodia's National Museum in Phnom Penh. If it were returned to the remote pagoda, Tranet fears that thieves would target it again. To Tranet, there are threats on every side--including foreign diplomats who use their immunity to sneak antiquities...
...that looters might be at work. The following night police staked out the tomb. Three raiders were caught; two got away. State press reports hailed the arrests as a triumph, but instead of filling in the hole and posting a guard, the underfunded local cultural-relics bureau simply placed wooden planks across the hole and tossed in some dirt. Before long, other gangs pilfered at least 200 treasures, mostly ceramic statues, from the site. Among the loveliest of these pieces was a series of delicately painted female figurines, which could fetch at least $10,000 in the Xi'an underground...
Empress Dou's coffin is surrounded by a wooden structure called huangchang ticou, a burial method reserved for Han dynasty emperors and their wives and concubines...
...like the Titanic hitting the iceberg, but instead the side of the boat was ripped out by these giant wooden beams." ROBERT CARROLL, a passenger on the Staten Island ferry in New York City that crashed into a pier, killing at least 10 people...