Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trucks and circled the park, looking for more targets. One Negro managed to seize a club from his attackers, flailed away in wall-eyed fear, with blood oozing through his shirt front. When police finally reached him, the crowd hooted with glee. "He must have a skull like a rock," said one 16-year-old. "I kicked him twice in the head myself...
Most volcanoes, loud and pushing, build their cinder cones openly of fiery ash and lava. But a few volcanoes work under cover. Their molten lava never reaches the surface, but quietly pushes up the earth's rock layers as water from a burst pipe raises a blister in an asphalt pavement. Last week scientists were studying a report by Professor Hidezo Tanakadate, geographer at Tokyo's Hosei University, on the only undercover volcano whose birth and growth have been observed by scientific...
...moved and the bed of a nearby stream had to be deepened. The postmaster kept copious records of every move the mountain made. Geologists decided that it was caused by a "laccolith," a mass of molten material that had forced its way toward the surface, raising local rock strata instead of breaking through them...
University Theater (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Graham Greene's Brighton Rock...
...story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune of "Rock-s-bye Baby" with a set of hilarious lyrics from the daily race sheet; this is probably the funniest sequence in the movie...