Word: woodenness
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...online. "It's something people share," says co-founder Demb. "Popcorn is a snack food with a real emotional connection." Thomas' investment bankrolled a steady expansion--the company has opened up 12 stores over the past four years--while it has perfected its slightly hokey, down-home Midwestern look. Wooden barrels offer free samples in the front of the store, and big pots gleaming in the back remind customers that every kernel is popped on the premises...
...main Oak Hall, a spacious room paneled in that wood also features a massive oak staircase built without nails. The stairs lead to the balcony and to sitting rooms hidden behind beautifully carved wooden grilles that allowed privileged guests to spy on those below...
Thus sensing an enemy, the mob pounced. The man was pulled off his bike and set upon by students and people armed with wooden sticks. "Beat him!" they cried. "Kill him!" Quickly, the monks intervened and ushered him away to the safety of a nearby monastery. The mob, however, set upon his motorbike with clubs and rocks, smashing it to bits...
...Those concerns have strengthened Pomy farmer Andr? Chevalley's support for the SVP. Sitting at a wooden table in his sprawling farmhouse, Chevalley says that "bad" foreigners have no place in Switzerland. "If they commit a crime, they have to be thrown out," he says. "I absolutely think the SVP has the right idea...
...justice is not yet denied. Shortly after dawn on Sept. 19, Cambodian police special forces and military police surrounded a small wooden home on the outskirts of Pailin town in the country's northwest and arrested Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge's infamous "Brother Number Two," Pol Pot's deputy. Now 82, the most senior Khmer Rouge leader still surviving in Cambodia has had years to prepare for his eventual arrest. He surrendered to the government in 1998 but had been allowed to live in quiet retirement with his wife in a region that was a communist stronghold until...