Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat wave set off all kinds of trouble. In New Haven, Conn, and Milton, Mass., firemen had to turn up and cool off drawbridges which had expanded in the heat. Indianapolis had a plague of Peeping Toms. In Lakeview, Mich., a 16-year-old boy fainted while cutting wood, toppled into a buzz saw, and was killed. By week's end 147 people had died, mostly from heat prostration. New York police, ordered to help keep the city's water consumption down to 1,300,000 gallons a day, were driven wild by wrench-waving gangs who turned...
...taught architecture in the Abbey's seminary, will be lucky to see the end of his own special task. From dawn to nightfall he sits in a shack, cataloguing and patching together the fragments of Monte Cassino's treasures: arms and heads of statues, chunks of carved wood, tiny bits of mosaic. "It goes very slowly," he said. "Still, we've rebuilt six statues...
Except for a family party in the evening, Grandma's birthday next week will probably be like other days. "I got in the habit now of waking up at 6 o'clock," she says. "I hear my son up, splittin' the kindlin' wood downstairs. I wait till I'm sure he's got the coffee made, then I come down about 7. I just eat a piece of bread for breakfast, then I carry some coffee upstairs, and paint. In the afternoon I take a nap so when evenings come and the young folks...
Grandma's studio is her bedroom. It has a wood stove for winter weather. "I look out the window sometimes," she says, "to see the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene." She never paints from nature "because it's easier...
Nation's Heritage, a bimonthly, will start out in January with 5,000 copies and a cover painting (printed on linen) by the late Grant Wood. Its readers won't have to do much reading: the magazine will be nine-tenths pictures. It will also be adless (Malcolm's idea, reluctantly approved by B.C.). Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal-it is designed to look impressive on boardroom tables-but figures that many a businessman will want to buy it as a gift (with his name as donor on the inside cover) for his local...