Word: logs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller began developing that blend early. When he was an infant, his storekeeper father moved the family from Bill's birthplace of Sapulpa, Okla., to Borger, a Texas Panhandle town so new that it had no jail; prisoners were chained to a log. Says Miller: "It was a life of Depression, Dust Bowl and frontier. But that environment creates strong individuals...
...most camps, resistance began with the killing of informers. First, there were strange accidents: a log would roll off a pile and cast a stoolie into the river. Then came apparent suicides. Finally, teams of masked men entered the barracks to stab informers with primitive knives. "This was a new period, a heady and spine-tingling period," Solzhenitsyn recalls. "Retribution was at hand-not in the next world, not before the court of history, but retribution live and palpable, raising a knife over you in the light of dawn. It was like a fairy tale: the ground is soft...
...notes were one of the few things damaged in a small fire that occurred 'yesterday afternoon when a burning log fell out of the fire place in Kirkland D-31. Residents quickly called the Cambridge Fire Department, but were able to put out the fire themselves...
...Dales finished in splendid isolation at eighth with a 172. Ball coped with the winds despite his high-trajectory rainmaker irons to log rounds of 89 and 86. Ron Himelman trailed him by a stroke...
...parking office is also instituting a computer system that will log information on all cars and drivers registered with the University. Besides record-keeping help, the computer will provide an easy way for parking officials to get information through the Department of Motor Vehicles in any state so the University can enforce fines for cars not registered at Harvard but parked illegally. Students who register their cars with Harvard are charged on their term bill if they fail to pay parking tickets; but prior to the computer installation, collecting from unregistered cars was more difficult...