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I'll feel more comfortable with a wooden canteen.

Bryan Kennedy

They tried to pry the wooden frame.

Charles Prouty

The weight of the wheel and water deteriorated the axle. It dropped about three inches and just starting chucking wooden teeth out of some smaller gears. Those teeth are specially made out of very, very hard maple wood, so you can imagine the stress.

Larry Wilson

He can pitch. I saw him last summer in a wooden bat league. He's crafty, just like Cornelius. He's a competitor. When he gets on that mound, he wants to send that hitter to the dugout.

Larry Beets

What Coach Wooden did was so special.

Pete Carroll

They were 25 feet wide, 30 feet long, with wooden floors and wood going up the sides about 3 feet.

Tallia Cahoon

I have replaced several wooden salad bowls over the years.

Nancy Lewis

The Wooden Award Selection Committee had a tough chore in narrowing the list to the final ballot due to the parity of today's elite players and teams. We feel that these 18 players are the most deserving for consideration, and we applaud each of them for their outstanding effort both on and off the court.

Mike Solum

We weren't worried about it (the wooden spoon). We knew if we played some good footy we'd stay clear of it.

John Sutton

You really should be doing it on a wooden floor.

Mary Fishler

It was so small and they had these wooden benches instead of chairs.

Scott Williams

Live oak in the age of wooden ships was the best available ship timber; it is strong and dense and more importantly it grows in gentle curves that are almost analogous to the frames in a ship's structure. So it's really excellent material for shipbuilding.

Quentin Snediker

Taiwan was more than happy to send its geopolitical rival away with the wooden spoon.

Japan Times

I really barely ever see anyone use a wooden stick. Almost all of them use composites.

Corey Lessard

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. He scattered some hits (actually 11), but you can do that when you strike people out. It was the old John Wooden thing. We tell you what we're going to do, and in this case, you hit it if you can.

Kevin Coker

[Potts went on the air this week with a clever TV ad that aims to rapidly build name recognition. In the spot, people are shown banging on pots with wooden spoons as they chant,] We want Potts! ... This is Virginia. Let's make 'em hear us.

Russell Potts

He comes across as somewhat aloof, detached, the idea of someone being wooden. To me it's like dancing with somebody who's taken too many dance lessons.

James Schnell

Those wooden shoes look really nice, and we had one pair in our shop last year for $229, and they didn't sell. They're much heavier, they're wider, the bindings aren't modern, and they're harder to walk on.

Dave Rehm

If they are determined to live in those areas, we ask that they build in consideration of what the standards should be. Look at how many homes in wildfire-prone areas have wooden siding? Let's just use some common sense.

Wendy Rose

The girls will then be flying to London on Mar 20 where they will have two days to prepare, train, get a tour of Twickenham [the home of English rugby], before taking part in the Wooden Spoon National School Sevens.

Camilla Zalka

It's a one-of-a-kind attraction in the U.S.. It really is the centerpiece of a whole new area that is adjacent to Thunderhead, the wooden roller coaster. It is a pretty exciting ride. It offers a sensation most people have probably not experienced before. It spins a little bit. It topples in a few different directions like a tree that has been felled.

Pete Owens

The flavor and physical setting of the city's culture is locked up in the vernacular wooden houses of the 19th century, ... And I fear for them now. These are fragile buildings.

Frederick Starr

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.

Jared Diamond

None of this really has much relevance to his governing ability. He comes across as somewhat aloof, detached, the idea of someone being wooden.

James Schnell

Solid as a plank -- and as wooden.

James Miller

Key West still has the largest wooden historic district in the United States, bar none.

Joe Pais

The projection made for this was for 46,000 daily vehicles by the year 2000, and the latest VDOT projections for 2030 are close to three to four times that number. The lack of sufficient noise mitigation was a factor of those low projections in 1982. The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] did erect a short wooden fence, but VDOT labeled this a privacy screen, not a noise barrier.

Clark Tyler

He could talk with coach Wooden or a fan and you couldn't tell the difference.

Joey Meyer

It'll be much more comfortable, much more tidy. You're not going to have 2,500 to 3,000 people sitting right on top of the floor anymore. But nobody will be sitting on a wooden bleacher.

Troy Dannen

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

Spike Milligan

We use some draw knifes, where you can actually put the wooden block between your legs and you have a set of draw knifes and they will dig into the wood and pull up. We use some hand routers, we also have electric routers, but a lot of it is specialty hand tools, they're wood working tools that you actually get in there and chisel away some of the wood.

Ken Heide

Currently, I'm working with a naval architecture team, and they're trying to determine whether a wooden boat this size could actually float.

Porcher Taylor

A 10 percent bleach solution should be used and wooden feeders should be sprayed down.

Bruce Bacon

SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. Better late than before anybody has invited you. Example is better than .

Ambrose Bierce

Coach [John] Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach [Denny] Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.

Skip Prosser

We had a look at the numbers, but its panels are predominantly wooden and in decline.

Andrew Flanagan

There were 300 college students trying to fill this big tent with a wooden floor.

Tasha Lukachik

He is a strike-thrower. In (the CPL), if you throw enough strikes and let the wooden bat take care of itself, you will be OK. He keeps the ball down and is a very good fielder.

Todd Wilkinson

I almost had a heart attack. There was a wooden fence with a post, and it hit the fence and popped on the green. I never get breaks like that. I figured somebody's looking down on me (and) it was not meant to hit on the water.

Sammi Sloan

I had been out of form during the last two weeks and I wanted to show the coaching staff I was back to my best. We didn't want the wooden spoon either.

Amy Williams

A lot of talk at the time was, 'Well, there goes the wooden city. Now we can build something grander and more permanent, ... But it is precisely the old wooden city of New Orleans that people love.

Lawrence Vale

A guard put a loaded shotgun to the petitioner?s head, cocked the trigger, and ordered him to turn around and face the outside. When he did so, the guard intoned: 'Now have a good long look. This is the last time you will ever see the outside. When they take you out of here it will be in a wooden box, feet first.'

Jonathan Pollard

[A jar of rabies-vaccination tags. A wooden yardstick (] Save at Farm King in Canton ... believed to be owned by Rand.

Sally Rand

We have a big old wooden box in the living room that holds magazines. When it's full, we have to get some out of there to make room for more.

Deniece Schofield

This is all we have. This is it. Some people have insurance, some don't. A lot of old wooden boats they won't insure. So we're here to ride it out, and let's see what happens.

Linda Taylor

There was no running water, no electricity, and some were sleeping in wooden boxes.

Leticia Zamarripa

For example, my generation grew up watching 'Bugs Bunny' and 'Roadrunner' cartoons. But that didn't make me want to go out and pick up a wooden mallet and hit people on the head.

Tod Burke

You should have gone with coach to the Final Four. He would stop to talk to John Wooden, and he would talk to a fan. And you couldn't tell the difference.

Joey Meyer

The Igloo houses work really well for us...they don't leak and the dogs can't chew them up the way they can wooden houses. Large houses are best...that way it can house a bunch of puppies or one large dog.

Kandys Killough

This particular wooden dam is unusual for its age and the fact that it's wooden. But not in the sense that there are many dams that need fixing throughout the country and all around Massachusetts.

Lee Wooten

He sold them in wooden crates. I have the only crate known to exist.

Ron Matthews

Those looks will still be in for this spring, but the bohemian look is also going to very big, with wooden jewelry, wedge sandals and long, loose fitting clothing. Look for the 1960s mod look to start showing up in stores as well. The big sunglasses, the mini skirts and big, bold jewelry all are part of mod style.

Jennifer Bennett

The church was one big piece of wooden furniture. There will be plenty of steel in the next structure, that's for sure.

Robert Vaughn

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

Ramakrishna

Every tent has its own special clientele. There is a tent with lawyers, students, soccer fans.... Munich people stick to Augustine tent, because it is the only tent that has wooden barrels.

Astrid Ganssen

It's a 10-team tournament and we are using wooden bats that somebody's furnishing. It's going to be a good deal and the kids are looking forward to it.

Scotty Nichols

The wooden support beams were rotted to the point where you could take your car key and push it through the wood.

Jean Craig

The sea was very rough. There were many waves. They were in a wooden boat with a lot of people and a lot of goods on board. It seems that a wave broke the wood and water started to enter.

Francois Mahouwa

We know that it's a large warehouse with propane tanks and multiple pallets. We're talking about the pallets that you see in the warehouse stores that are three stories high of wooden pallets that are burning right now. There are also plumbing supplies, roofing supplies, and other multiple things inside this warehouse that are fully involved.

Sandra King

It appears as if a candle left on a wooden china hutch ignited the top of the hutch and spread to some curtains.

Larry Phillips

They had wooden decks and tar between their joints. God they were beautiful. There's a mystique about them.

Christopher Harame

Jon is a very strong kid. I really feel that he's the one that's been victimized. But for the sake of Jonathan, I'm going to forget about what Mr. Wooden has told me.

James Chu

The Committee had an incredibly difficult task in narrowing down the nation's top 30 women's players. This list represents the elite of college basketball, and our entire team at the Wooden Award is excited to see the best players in the nation prove their case as basketball's player of the year.

Mike Solum

It's a great place to run to have fun. The course is shorter (2.5 miles vs. 3.1 normally) and the kids can punch it up a little harder. We love going up there. There are thousands of kids, hundreds in every race. It's a course that weaves in and out of the woods and up steps made of big (wooden) beams. The guys have a good time.

Ron Jaros

When you go from a regular wooden lane to ice, nothing's the same. You just have to be able to keep your feet, because you're on a sheet of ice.

Randy Ingels

It was fun and it brought back good memories. I probably hadn't swung a bat in five years and I'd never used a wooden bat.

Mark Eaton

They never intended to defend this line, that's why they put the wooden guns in from the beginning. This line was always a fake, ... There were just massive camps everywhere you can imagine, they built them with foundations, fireplaces, even chimneys.

Mike O'donnell

It has the band students playing, and there's a part for pots with big wooden spoons to be played.

Sandra Irvin

They have roofs, doors, wooden doors, wooden planks from roof structures. They have refrigerators. They have all types of debris.

Ed Simeona

Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe - / Sailed on a river of crystal light, / Into a sea of dew.

Eugene Field

But when he came out he began to realize what we were talking about, and he had breakfast with Coach Wooden. We told him we were going to win the national championship. He got excited about that.

Ernie Zeigler

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Eric Desjardins

I don?t need wooden sticks to tell me I?m getting older.

Eric Desjardins

I don't need wooden sticks to tell me I'm getting older.

Eric Desjardins