Word: cordwood
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...ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby broomstick fingers behind, squeezed. Bacigalupi wheezed and bellowed while his breath lasted, then the Angel grabbed him with an inside crotch & lift, slammed him to the mat and pinned him for fall No. 1 in just short of six minutes...
...Flemington, Sheriff John H. Curtiss packed newsmen into the stuffy courtroom like cordwood, accepting "donations" of $5 and $10 for seats...
...newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...
...logs are being sledged through the snow to the railroad. By 1915 the hillside is once again bare and deserted. Fifteen years later, in Model No. 7, this twice cut-over hillside is again covered with trees but they are of a lean, weedy variety, fit only for cordwood unless drastic silviculture is practiced...
Tell again about the cordwood...