Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the violence started against Hoffa's men. In August 1974 an explosion wrecked Johnson's 45-ft. cabin cruiser, on which he and Hoffa had spent many pleasant hours fishing and talking union politics. George Roxburghy, a trustee of the local, was blinded in one eye by a shotgun blast. Otto Wendel, the local's secretary-treasurer, had his barn burned to the ground. A bomb exploded outside the house of an organizer for the local...
Died. Leigh Whipper, 98, veteran black character actor; in Manhattan. Among his early parts was a role in an 1898 production of Uncle Tom's Cabin in which he sang Old Black Joe. After serving in the Spanish-American War, Whipper spent 74 years in character roles in plays and films like Porgy and Of Mice and Men. In 1920 he became the first black member of the Actors Equity Association, which did not know his color when he was admitted...
Against Exhaustion. Most exercise physiologists insist that people must exercise strenuously if they are to benefit from their activity, and they recommend daily sessions on the track or a stationary bicycle and regular workouts on a handball or squash court. Morehouse, who developed simple "cabin exercises" for the Navy and the astronauts, offers a "no-sweat" alternative. He believes that people can lose weight and keep it off simply by "saying no to an extra piece of toast in the morning and an extra ounce of Scotch at night." He maintains that people can get into good condition and stay...
...rich sweet fragrance to it. Fat flies buzz inside its filmy bag. We leave 6-10 and head for West Yellowstone. By the time we get there, all the windows and air vents in the van are open. The elk's stench lies softly. At a fishing cabin Briggs rented last summer, we repack the van. In its bag, the head is baleful and timid, and I fondle it while unloading. Out of its bag, the head smells like a 2 a.m. urinal with broken plumbing and I kick dust over it. Briggs and I load it on the front...
With a few due compliments, she yielded the floor to Terry Sanford, a lanky grey-haired Democrat from North Carolina Sanford posed stiffly at the podium. Pushing honesty from his rail splitting brows to his log cabin tweeds. "I would like to quote from Abigail Adams. Do not put unlimited power in the hands of the husbands or we will be prompted to foment revolution. Well I hope that ERA passes. I'm not just offering you empty promises because throughout my political life what I've promised I've always kept. I would like to include in the Democratic...