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And George Washington, the biggest star of this momentous drama, was something of a bungler whose teeth were not wooden and who conducted a campaign to destroy Indigenous food stores.

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During the last week, workers delivered many long, thick wooden planks.

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A wooden cenotaph, initially intended to be temporary, was erected in Whitehall.

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Mr. Bottum’s use of a reference in a parable to prove a specific doctrine is also exegetically wooden, failing to acknowledge the nature of that genre.

The opening of an inquest into his death was told Mr Silcox fell into an atrium stairwell "following the collapse of a wooden bannister" in the early hours of 25 October.

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