Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Associated Press also thought it time to sound a "note of warning on political reporting." Said A.P. in its weekly official Log: "Politics are rough and will get rougher before November-so we take this opportunity to warn against misuse of verbs and adjectives. Remember: There never was a verb better than 'said' . . . We've had phrases like 'stinging attack,' 'stinging rebuke' and the verb 'noted,' which connotes truth. The prize of them all (not A.P.) was this lead: 'Canton, Ohio- Senator McCarthy disclosed today the Democratic Party...
Richards, who has been running the first log in the record-breaking mile relay with Little, Howe, and Alpers, will be favored to capture the 1000-yard run today. He should get pushed, however, by Dartmouth's Walt Clarkson, if the versatile Indian runs in this event...
...members of the H.M.C. will find an entry I made during the Christmas recess it the log book in their cabin. It notes that Parysko and myself had spent seven hours trying to locate the place, and pleads for signs indicating the cabin. It is signed by both of us. Had some action been taken to adequately indicate the way to Spur Cabin, there might not have been the double fatality of a week...
...central Laos and Siam. Nearby is the big Seno airfield, which can handle B-26 bombers and C-47 transports. Last week, while the B-26s roared out with bombs and napalm, the transports unloaded supplies. Gangs of French Union troops, stripped to the waist, toiled feverishly to build log bunkers and put out mines and barbed wire...
...pick of all La Junta scouts; they spend hundreds of dollars on their costumes and go on tour each summer in their own especially equipped bus, netting as much as $50,000 a season. Their headquarters is a $150,000 kiva, or ceremonial house, roofed by a lace-log pattern of 620 poles...