Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers, but 150,000 civilians were on hand to look at him. After reviewing the troops he stood up in a camouflaged armored car and led them all in patriotic songs. Then, in monstrous high spirits, he strode into a troopers' canteen and, sitting on a log like the lowliest man, stuffed himself with hardtack, spaghetti, broccoli. Later he returned to his plane, pulled his flying togs over his uniform, and took...
Chicago's first known white settler, a French trader named Pierre Moreau, was a bootlegger as far back as 1675. Before Indians and bears had been driven from the log village in the 1830s, gamblers, harlots, pimps had arrived. Thieves preyed even on the dead: private detectives guarded Chicago's early graveyards. Between Bull Run and the great fire of 1871 roared the first of Chicago's incredible booms, in which everything but the police force expanded. Result was Chicago's reputation in the Civil War decade as "the wickedest city...
...fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting dogs, log-cabin adultery, possums, milk snakes, the witch of Red River who chased brave Andy Jackson back to Nashville...
...commission pennants floated over both ships, along with the U. S. flag and the Navy's union jack (48 white stars on a blue field). Previously, Lieut. Davis kept a "diary" of each day's doings. Afterward, again in command of an "active" ship, he kept a log...
...aircraft contract log jam broken, the War Department signed $32,687,966 in contracts for 1,250 planes, all but 56 of them trainers which the Army & Navy must have before they can school pilots for combat planes. Ready soon will be contracts for the rest of the first emergency appropriation of $400,000,000 for 4,000 ships...