Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the 29 surviving soldiers of the Confederate Army tramped into Little Rock, Ark. last week for their 59th annual reunion, chortled in high glee over a new explanation for the surrender at Appomattox. The story: that General Robert E. Lee handed his sword and hat to General U.S. Grant because he took him to be the doorman. Then, with a sidelong glance at the last survivors of the G.A.R., who had held their last encampment four weeks ago, they decided to keep meeting each year "as long as there are two of us able to meet...
...York divorcée whose engagement to another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother...
...Climb. Unlike the Matterhorn (14,780 ft.), a jagged spire of rock to which little snow clings, the white stairway of Mont Blanc looks deceptively accessible from Chamonix in the valley below. Any tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there...
Sanctuary. In Rock Island, Ill., Martin Kohn was caught drunk riding on the town water wagon...
Sisyphus was the fellow who spent all his time in Hades pushing a huge rock up a hill only to have it rill down gain as soon as he reached...