Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monday morning Moore telephoned Fern wood. She told him that a woman friend of hers also wanted to buy a gun for "self-defense." Fern wood asked to meet the friend first. Moore claimed that the woman was getting ready to go on a mountain outing and did not have time to see him. But the friend knew how to handle handguns, Moore assured...
...even grander ambitions: "I hope if I were Prime Minister, I would have the strength to stake it all on Christ." When asked instead to reorganize Britain's airlines into a single state-owned corporation, Reith felt slighted. He found it degrading to work under Air Minister Kingsley Wood, whom he described as "a bally crook" and a "little swine." In May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed him Minister of Transport, but Reith's satisfaction was undermined by bitterness that the more important Aircraft Production Ministry was given to Lord Beaverbrook. "To no one is the vulgar...
...work like Tango (circa 1919), the dress suit and the white vest-rendered with the utmost economy as a patch of gesso on the smooth cherry-wood - take on a sleek, concise elegance far removed from the naive woodcarvings of country America that provoked Nadelman's hand. He was an exquisite connoisseur of gesture, and his finest works-particularly the suite of woodcarvings to which Tango belongs-stem from his delight in performance: in music halls or burlesques, at plays, piano recitals or even tea dances...
...only Radcliffe goal was scored in the first half by the team's sharpest shooter, Maude Wood...
...Wood said the 'Cliffe's strategy and control was greatly improved during the second half but said the team should have been more aggressive...