Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This individualistic attitude, he now confesses, was more the achievement of youth than the revelation of his contemplative years. A non-Republican youth will always be a curiosity in his rock-ribbed town of Calais, Maine...
...giant tepee in Washington State's isolated Rock Creek canyon, some 200 braves, squaws and papooses of the Rock Creek and Flathead tribes wailed, danced, and thumped tom toms. The occasion: the tribes' annual Root Festival, when members thank the Great Spirit for causing the roots to ripen and the salmon to run. The tepee was electrically lighted; in the grove outside a soft-drink and balloon vendor set up his stand, did a profitable business...
Christopher Fortune (Robert Hutton), a sensitive type, has music in his soul and wants to go to Paris to get it out. But his father (Leo G. Carroll), a rock-bound Maine sea captain, sends him to sea instead. When his father orders a second voyage, Chris does not tell the old man to go keelhaul himself, and then leave home, penniless, to write music. He just lolls around sniveling until his domineering sister (Ella Raines) and his adoring sweetheart (Phyllis Calvert) finagle money enough to send him to Paris. Later on, Chris shows his contempt for the financial side...
...most heinous vengeances of ancient times was the riveting of Prometheus to the rock so the vultures could get at his vitals. Probably the most exquisite torment possible to our day would be to arrange carborundum filings in your enemy's teeth in such a way that he would be forced to listen to radio programs wherever he wandered. For to even the casual ear--provided its owner is someone halfway bright--present-day American radio is an unrealized and lackluster medium. "It is a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere," says radio pioneer Lee DeForrest...
...miners, and even John L. Lewis, who was once a miner himself, knew that Bayless was right. In coal mining there is no absolute safety. Improvements have been made over the years, but the death rate is still high. Last year 974 miners died in rock falls and other accidents-most of them unnoticed beyond their home-town papers-compared with...