Word: cordwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blundered into momentary success, who arrived at immortality by accident. Ronald Reagan is a leader of totally different temperament and tailoring, but one sometimes hears the same puzzlement over his luck and political successes. In this comparison of qualifications, acting in Hollywood is the moral equivalent of selling cordwood in St. Louis or clerking in Galena, Ill., as Grant did before...
When the correspondent and his colleagues recorded inhuman sights -mounds of hair and gold teeth, rooms of crutches, emaciated corpses stacked like cordwood, ovens used for children-the world stared in disbelief. Today it seems difficult to understand the incredulity. For if more than 6 million Jews, gypsies and other "undesirables" perished in the camps, how was it possible to keep the Final Solution a secret from their neighbors, from soldiers and intelligence agents and the foreign press? In part, says Laqueur, with a screen of euphemisms and evasions. Even in Germany, Jews were not executed, they were officially "resettled...
...certain knowledge that in a New Hampshire family, what has been cooked as food, however pulpy and woeful, must be eaten. Woodpiling is a form of boastfulness left over from colonial times, and it consists of erecting in plam sight an unnecessarily large and stately pile of cordwood, with plumb sides and flashy square corners. Such a fortress wrests envy, respect and despair, as it is intended to, from all New Hampshire males and a good many homesteading females who have not yet bucked, split and stacked their own supply of wood for the winter. In my town, for instance...
...Paul says people in his part of the world are more concerned with inflation, with energy. "People say a loaf of bread is 89 cents, they talk about the way oil is up --those are the real things," he says. The woodstove business in the area is booming, cordwood increasingly hard to find. And almost every front door has been abandoned. People insulate the opening with a sheet of plastic and walk around back to enter through the kitchen...