Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets. Though Chinese will die, this is our campaign and in equal proportion our defeat. Here in this campaign the Japanese have combined a whole sheaf of objectives - a supply route safe from submarines; destruction of China's best troops; a political blow at Chungking which will rock the regime to its foundations. But these were secondary considerations. What they wanted most of all was to get us: to get the nest of planes that had accounted for more than half a million tons of Japanese shipping, had killed Japs by the thousands...
...came to blow the fighter strip. There was grey over the hills and we were eating the last bacon & eggs at the table. Demolition bombs hammered the air above, beyond, all about us with their concussion. Sometimes the blast would be infinitesimal, other times it would catch and rock...
...Thunder Rock (Charter Films), an odd one made in England two years ago, combines, in equal parts, theatrical rigor mortis with some unusually intense acting and sincere thinking. Its story...
...Noranda, in western Quebec, an old prospector slammed down four bags of gold ore on a hotel bar and shouted: "You don't have to figure what this rock runs to the ton; it assays by the pound." At the O'Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point...
Gold fever ran its highest temperatures in Ontario's remote Midlothian township. There Prospector Felix Roche found a seam of gold-rich green rock at least 425 feet wide. The site is reached by portaging through a chain of lakes. Just seven days later, the 36 square miles of Midlothian township were staked solid...