Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year a log attached to the rope split, sending a thousand Indians sprawling, inflicting one broken leg, one broken arm, two concussions, numerous bruises, and slight abdominal injuries. The latter were suffered by a sophomore when a piece of log caught him in the belly...
Author Stone follows this career with painstaking accuracy from log cabin to White House, lipsticking its essentially masculine features by portraying it through the eyes of Rachel, and stressing the sea of troubles they faced together as man & wife. The result is a hybrid with neither the grace of fiction nor the substance of biography, but it ought to make a ripsnorting movie. Darryl Zanuck, foresighted in such matters, has already bought the film rights and is thinking about Gregory Peck as Andrew Jackson, Olivia de Havilland as the President's little woman...
...east-central front, around an embattled hollow nicknamed the Punchbowl, U.S. Marines made the deepest U.N. penetrations into North Korea since last December. Wielding flamethrowers and bayonets, aided by planes, Army artillery and tanks, the leathernecks clawed their way up towering crags. From caves and log-roofed bunkers, North Koreans fought back doggedly, but the flamethrowers finally made the Reds break...
...characteristic Canadian reserve, Alberta has suppressed most of the roistering atmosphere of a traditional oil boom. But the physical evidence of a changing frontier is visible everywhere. In Edmonton, the provincial capital, steel skeletons of new skyscrapers rise against a background of frame buildings, false-fronted stores and old log houses. The city's population, up from 113,000 to 160,000 since 1946, has spread out beyond the reach of existing sidewalks, plumbing and telephone lines...
When his boat hit a log and capsized in the Snake River rapids of Wyoming, Van Hetlin considered himself lucky to escape with a bruised body and rock-slashed face...