Word: woodenness
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...measures against Lee Der. Last week China's General Administration of Quality, Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine announced that the company had temporarily been blocked from exporting. (A second company, the Dongguang-based Hansheng Wood Products Factory, was also slapped with a ban; it had produced 1.5 million wooden Thomas and Friends toys that had also previously been recalled for lead paint...
...heating at the aft end of the ship. NASA reports that it caught one bit of good luck in that the breach occurred right over a stretch of the aluminum framework of the ship itself - a bit like damaging a sheet-rock wall directly over one of the wooden beams that holds the wall up, as opposed to the unsupported stretches in between. That indeed is a stroke of good fortune, but less of one than NASA makes it out to be. Since the melting point of aluminum is just 1,220 degrees Fahrenheit, the framework could survive superheating only...
Father, I attend Mass for reasons familiar to any good Roman Catholic: habit and guilt. Never did a Sunday go by in my youth without an hour slouched on a wooden pew. You see, my father was once one of you. Like many Irish-American boys of his generation, he joined the seminary as a teen and wore the collar until his mid-30s. On his mission in Japan, he met a lovely young Buddhist whom he successfully converted. After he wrote to the Vatican and renounced his priesthood, she in turn successfully converted him into a husband...
...Boeing's brand reputation in the last six months has been transformed because of this plane," says Paul Charles, director of communications for Virgin Atlantic, which has ordered 23 787-9s for delivery from 2011. "It's in the same league as the Wright Brothers' wooden plane, the first metal plane. And this is the first plastic plane," he says. "This is precisely the kind of milestone in the industry that we need...
...affable shoe designer who also heads up the creative direction of the house of Roger Vivier, presented a small collection of couture shoes and bags in his first-floor office on the Faubourg St.-Honore. The most stunning pair was called "Boxes" and consisted of black and gold lacquered wooden boxes stacked on top of each other to form a heel and a sole. "It's like placing your foot on a console," Frissoni said. Most of the collection, which also included clutch bags and satin stilettos embroidered by the famous French embroiderer Francois Lesage, will sell for upwards...