Word: woodworking
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...found Ann Woodward babbling hysterically in her bedroom. Sprawled face down in the foyer of his bedroom, across a ten-ft. hall, was the nude body of William Woodward Jr., his face mangled by a blast from a twelve-gauge shotgun. Another charge of shot had smashed into the woodwork. The shotgun lay on the floor near his body...
...baffling problem of what to do about the birthplace of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a dilapidated house in Portland, Me., was resolved when the poet's Alma Mater, Bowdoin College, decided to duplicate it on the campus' using the original furnishings, woodwork and mantels to achieve authenticity...
...himself an arbor saw for $150. Next he wants a jointer for cutting precise corners, which costs him $130. Then he wants something to drill deep, accurate holes, and so buys a drill press for $100. As he graduates to fancier work, and starts putting intricate filigrees in his woodwork, he needs a jig saw, and that costs $65. The heavy curved lines on his masterpieces now call for a band saw at $250. If his furniture is to have legs, he must buy a lathe for $200 to turn them. And if he really wants to turn out professional...
...fortune. He was earning good pay as a time-study man at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond. Calif., but he expected the job to fold after war's end, and he did not want to go back to chiseling out a bare living in a one-man woodwork shop, as he had done in his first few years in the U.S. Recalling a newspaper article that predicted a postwar do-it-yourself boom, Goldschmidt decided that his invention would be an all-purpose power tool for home carpenters who wanted to make furniture or save money by helping...
...listening for a moment and then saying. "The Senator is not here." The doorbell began to ring. During the evening, some 20 or 30 people trooped in and out. They did not have appointments: most seemed to have no specific business. They came, as it were, out of the woodwork, as they always come to hover around a man of power. Some got the Senator in a corner and talked earnestly to him. Some wandered into the kitchen and sampled the bourbon. Some just stood around. Between conversations and phone calls, the Senator ate dinner in the kitchen. The broiler...