Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wood Co. of Revere is the only company with a vendor's license to sell wood at Harvard. The company's sales in the Harvard community have risen 50 per cent over a year ago, Barry P. Caswell, manager of the firm, said yesterday...
...green light, posed behind Macbeth's chair like Christ in The Last Supper. And the procession of silhouetted kings that show Banquo's line to be are reassuring because young Malcolm seems too wimpy to prove right royal, after having been put on at the end. With Birnam Wood, alas, all we get are a few streaky branches being figurative on the backdrop screen, and I do have to quarrel with the wild but unconvincing head that attends the witches in their first scene, gets bubbled in the cauldron, and then shows up again in Macduff's arms as that...
Predictably, they hung him in effigy. Rivington ran a wood-cut of the hanging and advised the revolutionary ruffiians that "The Printer....has considered his press in the light of a public office," and therefore he would print-and-the-Sons-of-Liberty-be-damned...
Such is the cop-shop banter on the Atlanta police force, says Sergeant W.E. Wood of the metropolitan narcotics squad. Like Wood, many real-life police officers, detectives and lawyers enjoy watching their fictionalized counter parts on television. "We watch Columbo and others," says Atlanta Assistant District Attorney Ross Hawkins, "be cause it makes our jobs a little more palatable to watch someone who does always...
Atlanta's Sgt. Wood cites a recent case in which a man was on trial for selling drugs to an undercover agent. "The jury wanted to know why we hadn't gotten a picture of the buy and why we hadn't gotten fingerprints from the packet," he fumes. "But that's not the way it works. You don't go out and shout, 'I'm an undercover agent buying dope!' Buys take place in dark alleys, and that little plastic bag they wanted us to get fingerprints from was greasy...