Word: logged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents of Leverett B-42, trying to burn a wet log in their fireplace without a grill or screen, sent smoke into the hallway that set off all the fire alarms in the entry, Harvard Police said yesterday...
...order to be proficient in racing you just have to log plenty of miles," says Jordan Tishler, a freshman who has ridden with the group...
...neither Soviet domination not economic hardship has erased the unique and often inspiring Polish identity. While camping in southeast Poland, one evening I huddled inside a warm log cabin with a group of other campers while rain poured. We sipped vodka prepared the traditional way: a mound of sugar on a small piece of bread melted over the liquor turning it light brown. A man played Polish folk songs on the guitar. Forgetful for the moment of the vodka's expense, the small group exchanged pleasantries that revealed an enduring commitment to national autonomy. One joke suggested just how long...
...Tories with a problem: their new party leader did not sit in the House of Commons. A Tory M.P. from Nova Scotia obligingly resigned, and Mulroney ran for the seat in a special by-election. Leaving nothing to chance, the rookie candidate moved his family into a three-bedroom log cabin in the contested district. Swapping his pinstripes for plaid sweaters, Mulroney beat his closest opponent by more than 2 to 1. Perhaps Trudeau, vacationing in Greece at the time, sensed what was to come. Remarked the Liberal leader upon hearing of Mulroney's election: "We will certainly...
...rights train. Winning a Senate seat that year, Humphrey continued brashly in Washington. He denounced the seniority system, accused his conservative colleagues of ties to special interests, introduced hundreds of progressive bills. He got nowhere. Something besides conviction was necessary, he decided, and he learned the Senate skill of log rolling. With it, he guided through nearly all the major liberal bills of the 1960s, some of which he had proposed years earlier: the 1963 nuclear test-ban treaty, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Medicare, food stamps...