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...sound-level meter and measured the lionlike snores of Mr. Sheir as they came through the wall. A newspaper reporter who auditioned the Sheir snore, live, felt that all this electronic gear was unnecessary because "even to the naked ear [it] sounded like a circular saw going through a pine knot...
...Take-It-Aisy School of Socialism." With great fanfare, writes Dunne, Wells once met the "taciturn, cynical Lenin with his yellow skin drawn like parchment over his high cheekbones, his little restless eyes, his great bald head looking as if it might have been hewn out of yellow pine with an adze. And here was little Wells, earnest, honest, conceited, describing in his falsetto voice the British conception of a Secialist Utopia of semidetached villas with a pot of geraniums in each window. When the interview ended and our hero strutted out, Lenin gave one of his arid chuckles...
...pieces of wood are alike," says Frasconi, who uses a dozen varie ties of pine, some of them knotty, in his work. "Sometimes the wood gives you a break and matches your conception in the way it is grained. But often you must surrender to the grain, find the movement of the scene, the mood of the work, in the way the grain runs...
...plain pine coffin was opened. Marina Oswald placed two rings on her dead husband's fingers and kissed him. The coffin was closed and lowered into a 6-ft.-deep vault, which weighed 2,700 lbs., was asphalt-lined and reinforced with steel bars. Said the funeral director: "It would be extremely hard for anyone to break into the grave...
Ross discovered the colorful symbiosis in the pine-covered Tuxtla Mountains of southern Mexico. The ants, which are less than half an inch long, live in nests tunneled out of wood. The caterpillars, one inch long and much heavier than the ants, are the naked, vulnerable larvae of a rare butterfly...