Word: logs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moneymaking service, using new specialized and electronic gadgetry that would baffle Casey Jones. For a closeup view of modern railroading, Associate Keith Johnson rode cab and caboose on the world's fastest freight train, Santa Fe's premium-rate Super C, Chicago to Los Angeles. His log...
...back into some sort of command of our situation. Individual Americans have to get back into command of their institutions again; this means access, this means responsiveness. These are great abstractions, but if you asked what is behind them you sooner or later come down to very specific log jams like seniority. You discover that over the years in every one of these institutions, people almost unconsciously have designed barricades to prevent access. They like the insiders game which makes it very difficult for outsiders to have any access to decision and power. And if you are going to fight...
...related: "There's this woman driving her kid to school when they laid a big log over her car. Out she gets with a can of Mace and lets them have it right in the kisser. One of them said, 'You can't do that, lady. That stuff is illegal.' " Although the level of violence was fairly low on both sides, some protesters did throw rocks and bottles at police, and a few cops bloodied heads unnecessarily. Overall, Washington police showed exemplary discipline; a less well trained, less tightly controlled force could have brought about...
...land where the home is to be, it raised from the earth and still a part of it, the color is the land beneath the juniper and pinon which surround it, low to the ground and quiet, when abandoned, returns to the earth and origin. Ceilings are long log rafters covered with planks of wood, and earth above, they are low, are warm and welcome to the hand; the walls are earth and carry her warmth and rhythm fireplaces, for efficiency, curve the corners of the room, their openings are the most wonderful of parabolas, three pinon logs leaning...
...Black Press" also carries a "special appeal to all black college students" to establish and support their own black newspapers and magazines. "We hope that the HJAA will have a kind of log-rolling effect in getting other publications started," Daniels said...