Word: logs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head out of the cabin. Alongside was a freighter; people were sitting on the bridge, having evening drinks." Battered by huge waves, isolated by fog, Chichester slept only four to six hours a night, fought his loneliness by writing a 75,000-word diary, disdained a prescribed daily log (sample question: "Happy without feminine company?"). An expert navigator, Chichester accepted the risk of icebergs and storms, gambled on a northerly course along the comparatively short Great Circle route...
Thurs., July 28 Republican National Convention (CBS and ABC from 7:30 p.m., NBC from 8:30 p.m.). Barring a log jam of other business, the nominations and voting for the vice-presidential nominee, followed by the acceptances...
Joyce Ebert's compassionate Miranda and John Ragin's gallant Ferdinand are highly affecting. Their first meeting is one of the most sublime in all theatre, surpassed only perhaps by that of Siegfried and Brunnehilde in Wagner's Ring. In the log-toting scene, it is a lovely touch to have Ferdinand caress a log in his arms as he ruminates over his beloved, and then have Miranda embrace the same log out of bashfulness during their ensuing duologue. (Another inspired bit comes at the end when Prospero gives Ariel his much-desired freedom: here the fingertips...
Little Old Lady: Is it true, Mr. Nixon, that you were born in a log cabin...
...malted-milk tablets, three squares of chocolate and six ounces of water. What follows is a catalogue of torments. Tongues swelled and turned black. Sea water and the equatorial sun cut running sores. The feet of a wounded man turned gangrenous. By the 19th day, Cooke, who kept the log, recorded the first death. The body was rolled into the sea; cannibalism was a temptation...