Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal that the industry thought it could defeat: legislation that would set aside 126 million acres of Alaska's most spectacular wilderness. The bill would place stringent limits on how the land could be developed by oil companies looking for new sources of petroleum, as well as by lumber and mining interests. The most sweeping land conservation legislation in U.S. history, the bill would preserve an area slightly larger than California. It would also protect the great caribou herds in the Arctic Wildlife Range, the spawning beds of the Pacific salmon in the Misty Fjords along the state...
...NOTEBOOK: The doubleheader loss was Dartmouth's 14th in a row, a school record for the guys in the lumber jackets...
...that's all that saved me because the walls fell in." Cindy Trott, 22, fled to a science building at Midwestern State University for safety. Said she: "It didn't look like a tornado until it got up close to you. Then you could see all the lumber and junk swirling around, and we were panicked." When the storm passed, she hurried to her family's home on the city's densely populated southwest side. It was leveled, along with some 2,000 other houses in the city...
Alevizos will be going against Tiger ace Mark Lockenmeyer and a Princeton team that hits like Tarzan but fields like Jane. The heaviest lumber is wielded by first baseman Vic Kurylak, holder of virtually every Princeton offensive record. Kurylak is a cinch to break his own record of six home runs in a season, having crashed five roundtrippers in his team's six games this season...
Paley's rise to prominence started from the top. His grandfather owned a prosperous lumber business in the Ukraine and represented the Czar in his provincial town. When he anticipated Czarist pogroms and emigrated to the U.S. in 1888, he brought enough money to think about retiring. The treasure was soon lost through bad investments, but Paley's father Samuel made his own fortune manufacturing cigars. Young Bill joined the family business and quickly proved an adept salesman; one of his special delights was putting together a show called The La Palina Smoker on that new thing everybody...