Word: logged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game may mark Bob Smith's return to the Crimson lineup. Smith, veteran centerfielder, has been sidelined all season with a leg injury. "He'll play if his log is all right," McInnis said, "but we don't want him to get hurt more seriously...
Faith of the Fathers. Grandfather Ottomar Fuerbringer left his German homeland in 1838 with a group of some 700 Saxony Lutherans for whom German Lutheranism was getting too liberal and rationalistic, and too closely bound up with the state. He and three fellow ministers built the original Concordia-a log-cabin schoolhouse in Missouri's Perry County-and set out to train a New World breed of pastors in the strict, Bible-centered Lutheranism of their conviction...
...this added up to a serious legislative log jam for the weeks ahead. Republican leaders were freely admitting that all hope for adjourning by July 4, the original target, was gone. Congress will be in session until at least the end of July...
...Thorpe was born in a one-room log cabin near Prague, Okla. Jim's Indian mother-his father was half Irish-gave him the Sac and Fox tribal name Wa-Tho-Huck, meaning Bright Path. He was a muscular (5 ft. 11½ in., 185 Ibs.) youngster of 19 when he caught the eye of Football Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school. Pop Warner made Jim Thorpe into a football player, and Jim Thorpe made Pop's Carlisle Indians famous. One of Jim's biggest football thrills: "Running back two straight kickoffs...
...gone completely Wild West. In the bar of Barry's Hotel, men in checked shirts sat on high stools with gun butts sticking out of black leather holsters. Bearded commando riders shouldered their way in with Sten guns slung on their backs. The flames of a big log fire (it gets cold up here at night) flickered on reckless, sun-wrinkled faces. A pretty woman threw open her white fur coat; round her slim waist was a leather cartridge belt and a bolstered Smith & Wesson...