Word: logs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Survival Shelf. The splendid set pieces of the book explain the intricate classic art of building a log cabin, notch by hand-hewn notch, the principles of stone chimney construction, the shingles split from the white oak log with wedges, go-devil, maul and froe. And how to feed up, slaughter, dress out, pepper cure, smoke, cook and eat a hog, with two opinions about what one does with the ears, which are gristly. Not to mention a dissertation on moonshining as a fine art-by men who practiced it well...
...testimony, Cronin revealed a log which he said he and members of his staff had been keeping on the strike since its initiation on January...
Erdmann called the log a "fake." She also disputed Cronin's testimony that on the first day of the strike, waitresses had picketed within 12 inches of the restaurant's entrance, interfering with customers...
...chance to burst into life on film. The short studio roads flow together soundlessly, and it is easy to become disoriented, moving with only a few steps from a brownstone-lined street in little old New York to the quaint cobbled "place" of a French provincial village to the log-fenced parade ground of some frontier outpost. But somehow, out of this bizarre juxtaposition of different times and styles and places comes a strange imaginative unity. In the night and the silence, all the startling, various images are bound together by their common status as dreams...
...some things were hard to remember. Take the log for example. On it were typed the programs and the commercials that had to be run that day and my job was to list on it when I started and ended the show and when I did the commercials and station identifications. Throughout the night it was perpetually misplaced, and I started my program by swearing at the fool who left it lying on the floor in the other studio. By the end of the night I was swearing at myself for sticking it into a record jacket and several other...