Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supreme blunder, Bailey declared may be considered by some as "forcing the full text of the League Covenant into the Treaty, for Article X of the Covenant was the rock upon which the ratification finally floundered.... A brief statement committing the signatories to the general principles of the League and making specific provision for a commission to draw it up at a later date, as was done in the case of the World Court, would have insured the ratification of the Treaty and the framing of a covenant in a less hurried fashion and in a saner atmosphere. A League...
Commandomen searched Gibraltar, came in with disheartening news. Five more of the Rock's historic apes were dead! From 17, the Rock's monkey colony had recently shrunk to eight. Two of the bodies just found were those of Adonis, also called Scruffy, and Antonio. They were rival leaders of the pack, potential fathers of future generations. The bodies were beyond postmortem; there was no way of proving that it was an Axis poison plot...
...Since 1780, when the chattering monkeys warned the garrison of a Spanish attack, the apes of Gibraltar have been tenderly cherished. In 1872 a subaltern who shot two of them for stealing his wardrobe was court-martialed, required to apologize publicly. Nowadays the apes are free to roam the Rock's caves and roads. The military administration even includes an official charged with keeping the apes alive, healthy and procreative. He is known as "0. C. Apes...
...Aleutians they swung from ropes to chisel footholes in the solid rock of steep cliffs, and working on the mountain's precipitous wall in a driving rain constructed a track for a traveling carriage...
Army Engineers were sent to Ascension with the greatest secrecy in March 1942. In three months they converted the pile of volcanic rock into a base. Since then Wideawake Field has handled 5,000 planes...