Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle against inflation. They favor controls clear across the board. But action is being held up behind a logjam of unwillingness of each of the great economic groups to accept controls unless at the same time controls are placed on others. Farmers are ready to break the log...
...genius for creating an illusion of reality only to turn it into a fantasy. Thumper goes along being all rabbit, suddenly does something purely human. The shift is hilarious. Thumper's chief accomplishment is a hereditary talent for thumping his long left foot against the earth, a log, or anything else, with the staccato crack of a tommy...
...leader, in this queer obstacle race, was a big black fellow, knotty of muscle, sleek of thigh. He leaped a seven-foot wall, writhed easily hand-over-hand up a rope, scrambled over a log breastwork, pawed up one side of a big rope web and down the other, snaked through a culvert pipe and broad-jumped a trench...
Fire from the burning planes flared above the city and two Jap airmen plummeted cometlike to the ground as the fire from their flaming clothes spread to their chutes. But Allison was in trouble, too. His damaged engine was rattling. He headed for the Hsiang River, skittered over a log, set the ship down in the water. Chinese fished...
...From his log cabin in California's Siskiyou Mountains emerged 114-year-old Ned Rasper, a testy 85-lb. Karok Indian. He growled: "When I was a boy of 15 seasons, I saw my first white men. I thought they were some kind of new animal without skins, but they made signs so we fed them...