Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said that none had visited the wall since trouble broke out. When we crossed the Old City to the First Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa, crowds of Moslems were coming out from Friday prayers at an Arab holy place, the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock (often miscalled the Mosque of Omar). They all glanced sharply at me, but hurried on as they spotted my two constables...
According to a Harvard classmate, Historian Francis Parkman suffered from "Injuns on the brain." Even on a tour of Switzerland, he sat on a rock "fancying myself again in the American woods with an Indian companion." His ailment, if such it was, gave strength and color to some of the most readable history written by any U.S. scholar (The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than...
...those reasons, some rock-ribbed conservatives such as wealthy, 72-year-old Walter Dillingham oppose statehood. Said one of them: "In view of world uncertainties and the attempt at outside control of our local affairs, this is not the time for us to cut loose from federal control...
...Little Rock, Ark. (December...
Mount Cranmore in North Conway, the south-most major resort in this area, is the Plymouth rock of American skiing. Here, around Bans Snieder known as the founder of American skiing, known as the the greats of Austria and Switcherland to provide probably the best school in the United States...