Word: woodenness
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...College Harry R. Lewis ’68 is dense and varied, a testament to his many interests. Amidst the exploration-era maps of North America, the computer science books, the dozens of rock samples and the mounted bull skull, it would be easy to miss the wooden hockey stick leaning in the corner...
...obtained, but sources point to a dental lab found at one of Saddam's palaces.) Pentagon officials now think that Saddam may have been hiding in a white-stuccoed house adjacent to the building that was destroyed: neighbors note that the house boasted five telephone lines and a wooden desk like the one Saddam sat behind during his television appearances early in the war. As many as 10,000 U.S. special-operations troops in the region are exploring palaces, tunnels, bunkers and other places where Saddam may be hiding--or where evidence may be found to help track...
Men’s lacrosse had recently switched from wooden sticks to molded plastic ones, but women’s teams around the country did not yet have a plastic model. That’s where Kleinfelder stepped in, designing the popular Brine Cup stick and helping promote the use of plastic sticks in the women’s game...
...Getting women to put down their wooden stick was a big hurdle,” Kleinfelder said. “The biggest concern was that the plastic stick would hurt people...
...Down wooden stairs, Doi hops nimbly onto a narrow catwalk 15 ft. above the floor, which connects 30 enormous steel tanks. Each holds a rice mash in varying stages of fermentation and cooling. "In my father's day," Doi says, "they didn't even use thermometers. He just stuck his hand in to determine the temperature." In the final stages of the month-long process, the mash is placed in bags and pressed in what looks like a giant accordion. The liquid that is squeezed out is pasteurized, filtered and aged for half a year in barrels before being bottled...