Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from her German home at 15 (her father used to beat her over the head with his pipe), went on the stage, turned reformer, was jailed eight times, in 13 years hawked 99,000 copies of the Birth Control Review on Manhattan streets, was called by Margaret Sanger the "Rock of Gibraltar...
...Moscow-sponsored National Committee of Liberation in Lublin made formal application for relief on behalf of Poland. At UNRRA's last meeting in Montreal a fortnight ago, delegates from the London Poles had sat unhappily silent, under strict instructions to say nothing and do nothing to rock the boat. Now a major issue was out in the open. Theoretically it was up to UNRRA's Big Three (the U.S., Britain and Russia) for settlement. Actually the final decision was up to Russia. For before UNRRA can operate in Poland or any other territory occupied by the Red Army...
Nahas' sudden dismissal would rock the new Pan-Arab League. There was a slight morning-after feeling as two other signatory Premiers - Syria's Saadallah El Jabry and Lebanon's Riadh El Solh-emplaned for home on "urgent business...
Franklin Pierce Adams, diarist-columnist (F.P.A.) turned nostalgia expert (of Information Please), was nominated as Democratic candidate for Connecticut's Senate, from a rock-ribbed Republican district. His campaign strategy: mostly "to keep my trap shut...
...wreck the plant. But "in the nick of time, like the U.S. cavalry in an oldtime Western film, the common wealth idea . . . storm[ed] the national scene and . . . rescued a civilization from the running clutch of death." Young (35) Author Ardrey 's first novel (his play Thunder Rock has just appeared as a British cinema - TIME, Sept. 25) is crowded with cliches ("I get out the old and battered typewriter") and gilt-edged platitudes ("There are things of beauty in the world of a child that cannot be carried on into man's estate"). But it has enough...