Word: logs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music in Poland were attended by hard-core traditionalists who touched off riots with whistles and rattles. Penderecki merely answered with some noisemakers of his own, scored one piece for woodwinds, musical saws, files, sirens, typewriters and electric bells, not to ignore the percussionist whose work entailed assaulting a log with a handsaw...
Kissinger argued that "the only way to escape this log jam is to stop talking about the past and try to see whether one can find comparable restraints on both sides to stop the shooting and begin the negotiations...
...civil rights talkathon but also by delaying action in congressional committees on eight major appropriations bills, Senators eager to return home for campaigning grew increasingly restive. Lyndon Johnson had, after all, predicted last year that the session would end before July. By week's end, however, the log jam began to ease as budget requests for the District of Columbia and for new military construction passed the House and another for public works emerged from a House committee...
...Like a Log. The pain is in the elbow of his wonderful throwing arm, and he first discovered it two years ago. Four mornings after pitching-and winning-a particularly tough game against Milwaukee, he awoke to find his entire arm swollen "like a log, a waterlogged log." Orthopedist Robert Kerlan told Sandy it was traumatic osteoarthritis caused by the unnatural strain of pitching. From time to time, the liquid could be drawn out with a syringe, and the swelling could be reduced by cortisone and other medication. But every time he threw a baseball, the elbow would get worse...
Nature's most catastrophic events are supernovae-rare stars that burst with a brilliance 100 million times more luminous than the sun, releasing the equivalent of 200 trillion trillion 100-megaton hydrogen bombs. Swiss Astronomer Paul Wild has just added a new one to the stellar log-the first supernova seen from the earth in the unnamed galaxy N.G.C. 4189 in the constellation Virgo...