Word: rock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assembled in a drizzle at the railroad station, Nominee Roosevelt paid tribute to Senator Murphy, killed last summer in an automobile accident, later drove off on a 45-minute inspection of park buildings and rock gardens built...
Theodor Jakobs, in his The Lion of Brzezing, thumbnails Adolf Hitler's venerable friend, General Karl Litzmann: "With legs astride, as though ready for battle, the old General stood before the window like a rock carved out of ancient Prussia...
...alarums and excursions" in the field of diplomatic relations, the world's stability no longer seems to rest entirely upon the ebb and flow of Spain's political fortunes. The dramatic threats of the Soviet and the deep-throated growls of dictatorships alike reecho but are dissipated on the rock of Anglo-French determination to preserve peace. But one country or another may overplay its hand in this game of bluff, with dire consequences for the world. Then Britain, France, and even the not-so-isolated United States will have to decide whether to play the role of the Spanish...
...fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus belabored like any other Eton schoolboy, but Viscount Lascelles is most unlikely to be flogged with the Eton birch by athletic, rock-climbing Headmaster Claude ("The Emperor") Aurelius Elliott. It was the sight of the Eton birch which made Queen Mary exclaim: "If I had known the boys were thrashed with this, I should never have let Henry [The Duke of Gloucester] go to Eton." Appointed in 1933, new Headmaster Elliott found...
...lives and only 500 had suffered wounds of various sorts, though the entire upper structure of the Alcázar had been pounded to jagged chunks. Never could even superbly trained West Pointers have thus held out had not much of the Toledo Fortress been hewn out of living rock and its enormous cellars kept fully stocked with food, wine and munitions by Commandant Moscardo...