Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Race against Time. Into the project, which rivaled the building of the Pyramids, went Chinese rock and Chinese earth, Mississippi flood mats and Douglas fir pilings from the forests of the Pacific Northwest; into it also went UNRRA money and UNRRA grain. But the most important contribution was Chinese hands -200,000 of them-working night...
...about . . . that's Christmas come, that's the Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven, that's the song and the dance, the old river laughing, the ocean all happy, the wind full of kisses, the sky open arms, the tree jumping for joy, the rock all humming, the night gone whispering, the day come strolling...
...tended and revered in a small park (not far from a more recent Jap-built air-raid shelter). In recent centuries a permanent male population had been established on the island, but women still outnumbered the men. The old native description of the island-"Too much wind, too much rock, too much woman"-still applied, though a male revolution was on the march...
...working conditions to the Government conciliation service; 3) establish industrywide, instead of individual plant, bargaining; 4) order Government-sponsored negotiations in strikes already under way. Added Barrett meaningly: "If these proposals do not receive consideration, strikes are inevitable. There is danger of strikes in steel, automobile, electrical, hard-rock mining, chemical and packinghouse industries...
Sing Out, Sweet Land! (Decca, 10 sides). A merry survey of 300 years of U.S. music from the late Broadway musical. Best of the 17 songs are Big Rock Candy Mountain, sung by Burl Ives, Casey Jones by Bibi Osterwald, and such treasures as Little Mohee and Frankie and Johnny. Performance: good...