Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling...
...silver to the ton. Prospectors poured in, and made one jewelry-store strike after another. In four years, 44 mines were opened. By 1916 Cobalt mines had produced 300,000,000 oz. of silver. By 1922 the richest veins had petered out and the price had hit rock bottom...
...semi-annual tribal council's conclave at Window Rock, Ariz. went on without him. But high-heeled boots and sheepskin moccasins shuffled in & out of room 201 at nearby Fort Defiance's Government hospital. The man in the peppermint-candy pajamas knew the crisis facing his people. The reservation's 17 million arid, eroded and exhausted acres could not support its 55,000 people much longer. (Navajos, multiplying faster than whites, are the largest Indian nation...
...room London office. Most pleased of all is the man directly responsible: Elliott Martin Browne, 46, the tall, gaunt director of R.D.S. since 1936. It was he who had prodded T. S. Eliot, poet and High Churchman, to write two of the most popular modern religious plays: The Rock and Murder in the Cathedral...
...Rock Island, New Haven, Frisco, St. Louis Southwestern and Missouri Pacific...