Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Movers & Shakers. In Rock Falls, Ill., Douglas Unger woke up when his bedroom began rocking, found that workmen were carrying out his orders to move the house down the street...
Behind the scenes, Dr. Lull and his aides lobbied to swing the N.M.A. into line with the A.M.A. in opposition to socialized medicine. But they could not budge a rock-ribbed Southern bloc in the N.M.A., which saw a chance to strike a blow for equality. Outgoing President C. Austin Whittier of San Antonio threw out the challenge: "I recommend that we take a firm stand in support of President Truman's health program . . . and make available necessary funds for effective support." That was a bargaining position...
...native American enthusiasm for rescues was tried to the utmost when a flash flood marooned 21-year-old Robert M. Lee on a rock 55 yards from the bank of South Carolina's Columbia Canal. A Navy blimp was flown from Savannah, Ga. to have a go at him and failed. But after twelve hours, two daredevils with an outboard motorboat managed to snake him, safe & sound, out of the torrent of white water...
...Rock Park, Colo., Met Tenor Lauritz Melchior got full-dress honors from 250 nudists in convention nearby. To hear him sing, they put their clothes...
...with the dash and vision of the old Great Northern empire builder. Taking over the depression-troubled "Q" in 1932, he put it on its feet by such business catchers as the first dieselized streamliner. And he made the "Q" famous as a training school for railroaders-including the Rock Island's John Farrington, Santa Fe's Fred Gurley, the Great Northern's Frank Gavin...