Word: firewood
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...stop by occasionally to deliver supplies and make certain that Jane is all right. In the letter she wrote: "I feel very old and very young. I'm more determined than ever to stay here." She reports she has learned to bake bread and saw and split firewood. For a while, she had human company: a male friend spent ten days on the island to help her build a wooden shack. Now, she is alone again...
WDCR, the student operated radio station said that, Farrand Stanley, a native farmer of New Hampshire's Etna mountains, telephoned a class officer saying he had as old bars he wanted wrecked. The students could tear it down and use it for firewood. Stanley gave explicit directions as to the location of the barn...
Darkness eventually shrouded the compound, and revolutionary noncooperation or not, the protesters began to protect themselves against the chill. Blankets were unfolded, and packing crates were broken up for firewood. The fervor of resistance seemed to relax, revealing a band of people who were young, tired and cold. A few tried a couple of verses of Viet Nam Rag, then retreated into subdued silence; hardly anyone knew the words. Then someone put a harmonica to his mouth, and soon they were singing, like so many Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls...
...momentous decision. Dan George's stoicism and grace give him an almost biblical presence. Sometimes, standing to one side, the chief seems to be the essence of the Cheyenne, waiting for some unnamed event−perhaps the time when the white man uses up all the firewood and moves on forever. He is no less memorable uttering an occasional phrase. When Little Big Man announces that he has a wife, Old Lodge Skins inquires: "Does she show a pleasant enthusiasm when you mount her?" The question seems not lascivious, but full of paternal concern. When he prepares...
...land equivalent of outboard motorboats that now choke the nation's lakes and rivers. In some wilderness areas, undeclared war has broken out. Hikers and crosscountry skiers block trails with felled trees; in response, some bikers and snowmobilers carry chain saws to slash roadblocks and cut free firewood...