Word: woodenness
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...tower was last restored 15 years ago and was repainted in 1998. McNeil said that the tower’s cornices—the wooden ornate engravings just above the columns that encircle the tower—have significantly deteriorated in several places since the last restoration, and paint is peeling away due to weather damage...
...famous Danish designer himself will come to your door - figuratively speaking. His cordless doorbell, which recently won a Plus[an error occurred while processing this directive] X Award (the top European prize for gadget design), features a range of tones, among them a recording of Jensen knocking on a wooden door...
...transcontinental convoy. But the 62-day Washington-to-San Francisco trek left him appalled. On the often unpaved, poorly maintained roads that comprised their route, trucks became stuck in mud, disappeared into clouds of dust, and slid on ice; on occasion, they even crashed through the beds of creaky wooden bridges...
...collision stove a hole below the Brunswick's waterline, breaching the wooden planking and the copper-alloy-sheathing of her hull. Afterward, the ship's officers and crew had done their best to still the rush of sea-water into the ship's holds. But the ship's master, Alden T. Potter, knew that, with over a thousand miles of water between them and the nearest shipyard, he and his crew had little hope of repairing the vessel. In the meantime, all he could do was what American captains had always done in such situations: raise Old Glory upside down...
...Ty’s Latin teacher for four years at the Menlo School and also remembers his creativity. She recalls being impressed by a scrapbook that Ty designed for a Greek and Latin club of which Ty was a member. “It was breathtaking....He took a wooden block, and he carved mountains with beautiful pencil drawings,” says Vasquez, who was also Ty’s adviser for three years. Ty is survived by his wife, Robin, his father George, his mother Bonnie Tsan, and sister, Monica. Ty’s family requested privacy during...