Word: bedrock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous possession in which California takes no particular pride is the San Andreas Fault, a great crack in the bedrock that leads from the Mexican border to Point Arena, no miles northwest of San Francisco, and out to sea. When the fault slips, it causes a major earthquake. Last week Seismologist Charles F. Richter of Caltech outraged chambers of commerce by warning that the San Andreas Fault has been gathering pressure for a major bust-loose...
...undisputed boss of the World-Herald, Omaha's only daily (circ. 254,467), Henry Doorly has long had a bedrock maxim for publishing his paper. "You can't look for popularity, if you're an independent paper," says he, "because you're constantly stepping on someone's toes. When you're alone it's doubly difficult to please everyone...
...when one comes down to this bedrock, it may be expected that the West will show a heartening degree of unity; few, even among the Bevanites, the German Social-Democrats and the French neutralists, really want to see the Americans retire to Kansas while the Russians retain their grip on Eastern Europe. Western leadership, then, faces a dual task. The point has to be patiently and consistently put across to the Russians that NATO and all other arrangements under which American forces provide a shield for smaller countries are vital to western defense (and to defense only). Meanwhile the western...
...road position. ("Too static," explained the White House.) He had toyed, he said, with the idea of calling his kind of Republicanism "progressive moderate." But now he thought that "dynamic conservatism" was the best term: "We are not antediluvian, nor are we trying to be men from Mars." Bedrock Conclusions. When he had finished, the national committeemen pounded the tables in delight. Whispered one committeeman to his neighbor: "Why. that's the first real honest-to-goodness Republican political speech I've heard him make." But the committeemen hadn't heard anything yet: Ike's speech...
...rich, alluvial topsoil of Algeria's Cheliff River valley has long provided France with one of her richest colonial gardens, but the bedrock that lies under the valley's rich farms is full of treachery. One night last week it was torn and wrenched with such mighty subterranean convulsions that in just twelve seconds much of the valley was a waste of flood water, its principal town Orleansville a desolation of rubble and wreckage...