Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across the Manus lagoon, which is big enough to shelter all the navies of the world. A 300-ft. pier is constantly thronged with Navy personnel waiting water-taxi service to their ships. Trucks, jeeps, weapon carriers move from the docking area onto a three-lane road of coral rock, called "Victory Highway," which invades the hills...
These predictions hit the ears of the Citizens Board of the University of Chicago like a series of rock-filled snowballs. For the prophet was the University's Theodore W. Schultz, professor of agricultural economics, adviser to the United Nations Food Commission, economic consultant to the Lend-Lease Administration, and general agricultural Pooh...
...Republican Congress they would become, respectively, Speaker of the House and chairman of the House Rules Committee. And, said the President, he just wanted to remind the voters that, if Republicans should gain control of the Senate, his "old friend," California's 78-year-old, rock-ribbed isolationist Hiram Johnson might become chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and North Dakota's isolationist Gerald P. Nye would head the powerful Appropriations Committee...
...point the St. Roch broke out the blue ensign to signal a settlement of Aleuts. The Aleuts refused to answer until the St. Rock ran up the Stars & Stripes. They thought their visitor was a Jap ship...
...biggest, most expensive, most marmoreal mansion of all was that of hot-tempered Major Augustus Parkington (Walter Pidgeon). The Major built it as an anniversary present for his wife Susie (Greer Garson), the pretty little boardinghouse keeper from Leaping Rock, Nevada, and to open it planned the most elaborate ball of the season. But the Major was a crude fellow in the eyes of his neighbors and, when the night of the ball arrived, the Four Hundred cut him dead. Furious at the insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie...