Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under a Rock. With the air of a man peering underneath a lifted rock, he told what he had discovered at Moscow. He recalled how, at Potsdam, Britain and the U.S. had allowed the Soviet Union's claim to millions of dollars' worth of German factories-on the contention that this was the way to keep the peace...
...months ago, U.N. had vaguely assented to a suggestion that a piece of Plymouth Rock be used as a cornerstone for U.N.'s new skyscraper headquarters along Manhattan's East River. Last week came the alarming news that the stone was on its way. But it was not really a chip off Plymouth Rock at all-just an ordinary boulder from Yarmouth, Mass. It weighed 15 tons...
...York's Mayor O'Dwyer was quoted as saying grimly that if it ever reached his city, the rock would be dumped into the East River. Said his secretary, more softly: "They can send anything they please. But if it blocks traffic, someone is going to get a lot of tickets...
...first, U.N. officials could not even remember who had suggested the rock in the first place. One functionary recalled that the name of the sponsoring organization had contained the word "Friendship." Another remembered distinctly that it had something to do with Massachusetts schoolchildren. Finally the truth emerged: the rock was to be donated to U.N. by the World Friendship Council (an organization devoted to amity of moppets everywhere). The Council in turn got the rock from Charles Henry Davis, a Cape Cod millionaire and idea man, last heard of when he proposed that an 80-ft. statue of Winston Churchill...
They made K. lie down against a rock. Then one of them drew out "a long, thin, double-edged butcher's knife, held it up and tested the cutting edge in the moonlight. . . . With a flicker as of a light going up, the casements of a window [in the house] suddenly flew open; a human figure, faint and insubstantial, at that distance and at that height, leaned abruptly far forward and stretched both arms still farther. Who was it? A friend? A good man? Someone who sympathized? Someone who wanted to help? . . . Was help at hand? . . . Where...