Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still living) of an immigrant Italian who makes a little money working on an ash truck, and a fat Italian mother who helps buy food by cutting flowers out of cloth. He went to school, where his teachers considered him bright, and in the evenings he played in a rock-strewn vacant lot. Usually he played with the neighborhood girls because he was too little to get much attention from the older boys...
Still the people kept coming. Days afterward an endless procession still passed through the rock-strewn lot; a hundred men & women an hour knelt down at the place on the hill to ask for a miracle. For in the big city there were countless others who, like Joe, wanted something wonderful to happen...
...last, the sky lane over "the Rock Pile" had been fraught with danger. At the Kunming field, a mud-brick Chinese village at one end of the runway snagged so many incoming planes into wreckage that ground crews finally leveled it with bulldozers. At one stage more than 700 crashes-including many bombers and tactical aircraft-were spotted on the map at Search and Rescue headquarters in Chabua. India...
...Norway, a new Government took office last week. On the strength of its recent election victory and its absolute majority in the new Storting (Parliament), the socialistic Labor Party decided to rule without benefit of coalition. Its leader, rugged, rock-like Einar Gerhardsen, will preside over the youngest Cabinet in Norway's history (average age: 43). Its No. 1 policy: further socialization...
...Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...