Word: logs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painter, gourmet cook and popular after-dinner speaker. His canvases have won respectful reviews in four Manhattan exhibits. His first book, a diatribe about trends in art and architecture called The Irresponsible Arts, drew mostly critical barbs, but Across the Western Ocean fared better. It consists mostly of the log of two trips in his 47-ft. yawl, Figaro III. In the book, Skipper Snaith, one of the world's top transoceanic sailors, wrote: "We are all swarmy in our many layers of clothing. This morning I thought I smelled a horse. When I turned around to look, there...
...homeowner happens to be former Governor Orval Faubus, who served six two-year terms before stepping down, voluntarily, in 1966. The boy from Greasy Creek-the ruins of his log cabin birthplace are just 15 miles from his present home-came into office in 1955, owning one weekly newspaper. By being "frugal" with his $10,000-a-year gubernatorial salary, as he puts it, he managed to acquire four more weeklies, and some real estate in Huntsville, as well as the big house on the hill (which drew 1,100 paying guests during the first weekend it was open...
They figured out a way to make a cooking fire by rubbing a steel cord across a log and then pouring gunpowder on it. After months of experimenting, they discovered how to distill pure salt from sea water, then used the salt to preserve the meat of cows and wild pigs that they occasionally managed to kill. They kept an eye on the U.S. base -and on its garbage dump, which they sometimes raided for supplies. Using discarded tools and old tires, they fashioned round, oversized sandals that both protected their feet and ingeniously disguised their footprints. Deciding that...
...Local historians maintain that the town helped popularize the word "booze." The term was coined earlier but gained wide currency when a now-defunct Glassboro glassworks made cabin-shaped bottles for William Henry Harrison's 1840 log-cabin presidential campaign. The contents were supplied by a Philadelphia distiller named E. C. Booz...
...public likes to believe that unconsciousness is almost instantaneous, but the facts belie this. According to the official execution log, unconsciousness came more than five minutes after the cyanide splashed down into the sulfuric acid. And to those of us who watched, this five-minute interlude seemed interminable. Even after unconsciousness is declared officially, the prisoner's body continues to fight for life. He coughs and groans. The lips make little pouting motions resembling the motions made by a goldfish in his bowl. The head strains backward and then slowly sinks down to the chest. And, in Monge...