Word: logs
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...except to bury it." The big words were false, and life itself was "just a dirty trick," as the dying Catherine tells her lover in the same book. Hemingway's image for man's plight in the universe was that of an ant colony on a burning log. There was no hope of heaven or sustaining faith in God. In the short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, there is a parody of the Lord's Prayer built on the Spanish word nada, meaning nothingness ("Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name...
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An anthology of Australian athletics, including shark fishing, crocodile hunting surfboard racing, log splitting, sheep shearing, Australian football, jalopy racing-everything but billy-bonging...
After a painstaking search, the CAB located several witnesses who had heard the plane. Their accounts, plus the flight log and messages from plane to ground, pointed to one conclusion: Captain Lavrinc had been flying off course for 30 minutes, or since the time he had cruised over the "Casanova" control point. There he was scheduled to make a 20° left turn. Instead he continued on a death course. From then on, the investigation centered on Pilot George Lavrinc, 32, and his private life...
...generations in the Kentucky hill country his family had been farmers, moonshiners, preachers and feudists. His father was an impoverished and illiterate coal miner. But young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages...
Last month another log was thrown on the fire by Lieut.Colonel Paul D. Hickman of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, who astounded a national security seminar in Honolulu by declaring that not only did at least two Russian astronauts perish in a space attempt, but that U.S. officials knew the name of one. The Pentagon hastily repudiated Hickman's admittedly unofficial information, adding that the Air Force had "absolutely no evidence" to support the assertion. But last week came a Washington whisper that the Pentagon did indeed have evidence. The new rumor: that U.S. radio-telemetry...