Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tyrone, the level-headed old work cat, jumped up on his perch and sat there, solid as a rock. Betty and Patsy had been in heat; they were slow and sullen, but they went to their places without arguing. Zebou, the old rogue male, kept roaming, but Zebou always got funny before he went to work. Dolly loafed in the chute...
...front of Dailey is a pair of six feet three inch forwards, John Rockwell and Frank Lionette. Rockwell comes by his basketball ability naturally, hailing from Indians, which is reputed to have a basket and backboard in every backyard. A domon under and around the hoop, Rock can also toss in a neat hook-shot...
Missouri's James P. Kern, snow-haired, well-to-do Kansas City lawyer, will take over Harry Truman's former seat. A comparative newcomer in politics, he is a rock-ribbed conservative...
Change of Heart. In the prisoners' barbed-wire stockade at Kalgan there was further evidence of a historic military phenomenon: the diminishment of morale among even the best soldiers when the road ahead is an ever steepening, rock-strewn patch, the enemy one's own people. For eight years, since he was 17, Wang Yu-ming had fought with the Communists' famed Eighth Route Army, had risen from the ranks to the post of deputy company commander and had survived four wounds in battles with the Japanese...
...construction ideals f the 1870's has been no easy job, as Stevens can well testify, Regardless of the opinions of latter day aspiring architects and Fine Arts students, Memorial Hall was built to last. Basement partitions measure four to five feet thick and are built of slabs of rock as well as brick. Pneumatic drills have been needed more than once to put in doors, ventilators, and staircases, as called for in the blueprints. The only visible change on the exterior of this monument will be the main entrance to the Laboratory, which will be on the left side...