Word: logging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When At the Front reached U.S. cinema houses, Colonel Zanuck himself was not quite satisfied. Wrote he in his log:* "I don't suppose our war scenes will look as savage or realistic as those we usually make on the back lot, but you can't have everything...
Statesman at Play & Work. In a graphically described roadhouse ("Around a corner an arch of stout knotty pine opened into a big living room lit from skulls of longhorn cattle with electric bulbs in them set in a row round the varnished log walls"), Crawford is seen at play in blue-striped pajamas with a statuesque torch singer. In time he acquires a semi-Fascist radio station, is surrounded by more & more sinister henchmen. It becomes Tyler's business to take the rap for Crawford before a Federal grand jury and to be publicly repudiated by the demagogue...
...mists of Long Island Sound an oil-stained Pan American Clipper rumbled. It squatted on the water, taxied between the lights to its ramp at LaGuardia Field. By the time the engines had spat to rest, ruddy, squint-eyed Captain R. O. D. Sullivan was ready to sign the log of a historic transatlantic crossing...
Democracy, as it has been developed in the United States, requires a certain amount of political "log-rolling." The statesman who is so much concerned with his high ideals that he is unwilling to reciprocate favors rarely succeeds in getting any-thing accomplished. Although undesirable, playing politics has been regarded as a necessity under our present system. In wartime, however, the centralization of power in the executive is intended to eliminate the vices of our democracy. With the President wielding almost supreme power, he is able to cut partisan politics to a minimum...
...which each trainee must travel alone. First he must vault a fence, then scale an 8-ft. wall, climb another fence, swing across a creek on a hanging rope. As he lands, a dummy Jap pops from behind a tree and must be bayoneted. As the trainee crosses a log another Jap drops near him and must be shot from the hip. Beyond various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready. As he descends the other side a Jap dummy swings out at his right...