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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train ran until three weeks ago. Then a locomotive chuffed out with a few cars. There was a rock-throwing fracas; a picket was shot at and wounded. A few days later, shotgun pellets ripped through a picket's shanty. Nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Afternoon in Gridley | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...bundled up her nine-year-old son and together they began a frantic search in the biting zero wind and darkness. When she found her husband, he was trailing blood as he crawled toward home. He mumbled that he had slipped on the ice, struck his gun against a rock and shot himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Lighthouse Saga | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...glimpsed a ragged gash in the snow near the 11,000-ft. summit of Wyoming's blizzard-swept Elk Mountain. For two days, ground parties fought 75-mile-an-hour winds to reach the peak. When they did, they found flight 14, scattered over a quarter mile of rock and ice. The dead: 21. The cause: unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WYOMING: Broken Record | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Soon the U.S. will be able to hear most of Burrows' own Hit Parade. Some of the titles: The Girl with the Three Blue Eyes, You Ate a Hunk of My Heart, I Looked under a Rock and Found You, Walking down Memory Lane without a Goddam Thing on My Mind, Green Christmas ("I'm going to spend a green Christmas on next St. Patrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Abe's Hit Parade | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Ashfield, tucked in the Massachusetts hills, has only two churches, but even they are more than the town (pop. 900) can afford. Last October it found a way: one shepherd for its two flocks. Philip Humason Steinmetz, rock-hewn rector of tiny, white-framed St. John's Episcopal Church, took over as minister also of the Congregational Church that, with its Greek Revival portico and bell tower, dominates Ashfield's elm-bordered main street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two Flocks, One Shepherd | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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