Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view out of a farmer's kitchen window, the picture is titled Ground Hog Day (Feb. 2). Although it measures 40 by 40½ in., the tempera panel was painted with a miniaturist's exactitude. The firewood outside the window carries a symbolic suggestion of the yule log, which European rustics burn as a magical sacrifice to start the failing sun northward. The low winter sun gleams on the logs, and sidles through the glass into the bare kitchen...
...commanded by French Naval Lieutenant Paul Henry. 23. saved 3,400 refugees from death for eight weeks. Henry, the one authentic hero of the entire rebellion, died in the fighting, but left behind a fighting man's epitaph. Fleming recites the simple facts of his day-to-day log: "July 9: cartridges fired, 54; remaining 7357. July 10: cartridges fired, 124; remaining, 7233." During one attack, Lieut. Henry's men fired 58 rounds -and counted 47 Chinese casualties...
Determined to break the log jam, Attorney General William P. Rogers told reporters at the American Bar Association convention in Miami last week that President Eisenhower has approved a bargaining proposal. If, said Rogers, the Congress would approve the judicial-expansion bill, then the Administration would promise to fill half the posts with Democrats, the other half with Republicans. But Rogers' fifty-fifty idea fell with a soft plop in the Senate, where Republicans are unwilling to strike such a patronage-defeating bargain-and where Democrats seem more than willing to wait a year or so, when they hope...
...head injuries suffered last month when he spun into a wall of water on Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Lake while driving Miss Bardahl. Taking Regas' seat in defending champion Hawaii Kai was Brien Wygle, 32, a Boeing test pilot, who was the first man to log 1,000 hours...
From cheering Novosibirsk, Nixon moved on to Sverdlovsk, where the Bolsheviks shot Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, then drove deep into the Urals to visit a copper mine and Russia's largest tube and pipe plant. At every log-cabin village and dusty crossroads, hundreds of peasants gathered to wave and cheer Nixon-and they stayed on for hours to do the same for the caravan of reporters and U.S. officials strung out along the road behind...