The Beijing school where he worked was replacing its wooden window frames with metal ones.

CNN: THE EYE OF A BANNER MAN

Clothing and shoes were scattered through the concrete rubble, broken steel bars and shattered wooden window frames littering the streets.

NPR: Shiites Lash Out After Pakistan Bombing Kills 81

The drip from a plugged gutter tapped heavily, like a bully nagging for attention, on the wooden cover of a cellar-window well.

NEWYORKER: Outage

It is hand-painted in the ceiling, carved in wooden doors and fashioned in the cast-iron latticework of the window guards.

WSJ: Turf Battle Forms Over Hussein's Palaces

Loss adjustors have already visited the church to survey the shattered stained glass window depicting a nativity scene, a broken 17th Century wooden pulpit, a dented lectern and, most importantly, a smashed Victorian frieze behind the altar.

BBC: Prayers said at damaged abbey

There were three other mirrors in the house: the mirror over the sink in the upstairs bathroom, the mirror over the sink in the downstairs half bath, and the small circular mirror with a wooden handle that hung on a hook beside the upstairs-bathroom window.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors, so they had closed it off with sheets of rusty corrugated metal, and there, at four long wooden tables beneath a string of light bulbs which dangled from a second-story clostra-block window, they served up to thirty customers per night, if the turnover was fast.

NEWYORKER: Ghosts