Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become a thriving community with gristmill, barns, shops, houses of worship, sawmills, a tannery and a distillery. To keep his workers' energy channeled and profits limited, absolute celibacy was the rule in Father Rapp's Utopia...
...yard battleline across southern Okinawa had not changed position in 13 days. Ahead lay a Japanese army 50,000 strong, entrenched on rows of spiny ridges, each one a maze of log bunkers, concrete pillboxes, caves and tunnels. Patiently the Tenth Army's Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. had waited until the Navy built up his supply dumps. Then he was ready...
...From the log of a Flying Fortress radio operator on mission to Germany...
...representative group of Manhattan song pluggers gathers daily in the Gateway Restaurant, a minute's dash from NBC's Radio City studios. Here they compare their own and their rivals' successes in a radio log which lists all network song performances of the night before. After dinner, they catnap in a newsreel theater until the nightspots open. The pluggers spend an hour or so in each of the most popular spots, strategically seated at tables where they can vie with a dozen competitors for the eye and ear of influential bandleaders...
...Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. other provost officers, aided by Mounties, were staging another manhunt. In two cars and a truck they drove to the road's end at the foot of lonely Gros Cap hill. Then they trudged on snowshoes up the steep hill to a well-hidden, log-and-tar-paper shanty at the top. Outside, the officers pounced on five unshaven, bedraggled youths. Inside they found seven more, plus large stores of butter, canned goods, milk, cigarets, coffee, bread...