Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colombian village of Pauna, snuggling in the Andean foothills a day's motor drive from Bogotá, the new bridge over the deep, swift Río Minero had seemed as permanent and reassuring as Thornton Wilder's bridge of San Luis Rey. It was made of wood, suspended from steel cables. Across the 100-ft. span, donkey carts rattled, bringing produce to market. Across it, campesinos and the mountain people trudged to Pauna for the Saturday fiestas...
...relatives prepared for her needs in another world. Buried with her were seven frozen horses (important in nomad symbolism), a gold-trimmed dagger, wood and clay vessels for food & drink. A box of cheese was still fresh (one of the diggers' dogs ate a piece with enthusiasm...
...Romualdo on the Piazza della Torretta, a little way from Corso Umberto, you have to wind through narrow streets whose buildings seem to teeter perilously close to each other above, almost shutting out the clear winter sky overhead. It is a pleasant meander to a pleasant place. The unpainted wood tables and slightly rickety straight-back chairs promise the compensation of good food. The promise is kept with true Neapolitan pizza-the best water-buffalo cheese melted with just the right amount of garlic into a flour pancake, light as the finest bread...
...yard Medley: won by Harvard (Wood, Hoelzer, Gorman). Time...
...noon on the range, Bob Kleberg and the vaqueros sit down in a range shack, where a freshly killed calf has been barbecued, or gather at the chuck wagon for smoke-tanged frijoles, slabs of pork, biting hot wild peppers, bread baked in dutch ovens over wood coals, coffee and molasses (eaten with the meat...