Word: logs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...batteries of mechanical equipment. A two-way short-wave radio system was hooked up between the hotel headquarters (code name: "the Mansion") and cars used by Bob Price ("Adolf") and Lindsay ("Benjamin"-for Disraeli). And there was "the gripe line," a special number on which New Yorkers could log their complaints...
...naked boys, all of them 13 years old, stand in a darkened shed. "Go ahead, number three," says the Chief. Number three swings a kitten high above his head and slams it at a log. The Chief, wearing a pair of rubber gloves, scissors a long smooth cut in the skin, "exposes the large, red-black liver and unwinds the immaculate bow els. Steam rises. He gropes in the abdominal cavity and plucks from it the tiny ruby heart...
...operations such as the bank's highly respected monthly Economic Review (circ.: 350,000). In fact, both men take turns running the bank-and supervising its 184 vice presidents-because each of them spends about half of his time on business trips. Between them, Moore and Rockefeller log up to 300,000 miles a year, visit every country in which Citibank does business, including Russia, which honors the bank's traveler's checks...
...does in the course of this minor, deft, deliciously droll and sometimes startlingly profound little novel by P. H. Newby (The Barbary Light, Revolution and Roses), the most ingenious and beguiling Puck to appear on the scene since Henry Green came popping out of the all-too-hollow log of contemporary English literature...
...understand you were born in a log cabin." "No, Mr. Chancellor," replies Lyndon. "You have me confused with Abe Lincoln. I was born in a manger...