Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flight to Egypt found Churchill in "the office" (control cabin) of the four-motored American B-24 bomber, chattering with Pilot William Vanderkloot of Sarasota, Fla., winner of the Order of the British Empire for his Ferry Command radio-beam installations on the North Atlantic, and with Co-Pilot Jack Ruggles of San Francisco, once-wounded, four-year veteran of the Chinese Air Force...
...scraped the moss back, over the ice, put a corduroy planking on top and let nature freeze a solid roadbed. Pushing out of Whitehorse and Slana, one group paused briefly one afternoon on the shore of Kluane Lake at the foot of 19,000-foot peaks. Beside the log cabin of Trapper Hayden and his half-breed Indian wife the Engineer band played. A young private rose and sang the marching song of the road: Squaws along the Yukon Are Good Enough...
...selling at 90? an acre. Town put every cent he had into 600 acres. Then he cleared the tremendous cane that towered 20 feet above him and walked the cotton seed into the reeking-rich earth. The next spring two Negroes, a man and a woman, shared his cabin, his labor, his prospects. They cleared and planted twice the past year's acreage. Settling up in the fall, Otis skinned the Negro so unmercifully that he drew a knife. Otis Town smashed in his skull with a singletree. Then he went to the cabin with a jar of vaseline...
From his log cabin in California's Siskiyou Mountains emerged 114-year-old Ned Rasper, a testy 85-lb. Karok Indian. He growled: "When I was a boy of 15 seasons, I saw my first white men. I thought they were some kind of new animal without skins, but they made signs so we fed them...
From a poor immigrant to an associate professor at Harvard is the log-cabin to white-house story of Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, who is rated year after year as "top-notch" by his admiring students...