Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadcasting from his home on Montpelier's Main Street, Chicago-born Governor Wills first extolled Vermont's rock-ribbed Republicanism. Then he tore into those who think the G.O.P. can win with almost any candidate. Said...
...serious and intent student, she was discussing rock specimens in the laboratory with her professor one day when a serious, intent young man walked in. Said the professor: "Miss Henry thinks this rock belongs to the precarboniferous...
...interest in the outdoors remained. Washingtonians watched her ride her spirited grey horse through Rock Creek Park; in the summers she took long pack-trips in the Western mountains. Long interested in the Girl Scouts, she became their national president. (The Scouts' affectionate name for her: Buffalo...
...mucha better now," said Tony. "We kill to savea the pig but we kill for this, too." His hand pointed to streets where houses lay tumbled by mines and dynamite, where wooden window shutters rattled against shaky walls. A bitter wind, climbing wildly up the slopes to the rock on which the village stood, set a church bell tolling fitfully. Shawled women poked in the rubble for their pots & pans...
...many ways the President's "supreme blunder," argued Professor Bailey, was in "forcing the full text of the League Covenant into the Treaty, for Article X of the Covenant (mutual protection against aggression) was the rock upon which ratification finally foundered." Had Wilson been content with a brief statement committing the signatories of the Treaty to the general principles of the League, Historian Bailey thinks that a Covenant drawn up after the 1920 elections might well have been approved by the Senate...