Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smallest of Britain's Crown colonies, Gibraltar (area, 2 sq. mi.; pop. 19,278) took a firm stand against the liquidation of the British Empire. At the foot of the Rock, a mass meeting voted last week to send three delegates on a mission to London. Their mandate: to have "Gib" incorporated in metropolitan Britain, 1,200 miles away...
Stocks of clothing are very low, will probably be completely sold out by the time better quality goods make their long-awaited appearance. Furniture departments had only a minimum stock of rock-hard springless chairs, couches and beds. One Detroit store ruthlessly cleaned out its entire line of cardboard toys, burned them as trash...
...Francis again. This time she simply wiped her hands on a cloth. Henceforth, the saint told her everything she touch would become a sacred relic. After that, said Pierrette, the vision of St. Francis appeared to her about twice a week, sometimes in her home and sometimes at a rock outside the town...
Just as Bernadette went to a hillside at Lourdes, Pierrette went to the rock every day ay 3 p.m. to pray and to help the sick and teh crippled. As they years passed by story spread that Pierrette was gifted with supernatural powers and could obtain the intercession of St. Francis in healing the ills of the faithful. Val d'Or's civic leaders contributed labor and material to build Pierrette a grotto...
...hard-rock miner insists that he personally saw his mother-in-law, stone deaf for years, recover her hearing. Clermont Roy, who says he saw two crippled children fully cured by the girl, claims that his own eight-year-old son, mute since birth, began to talk after visiting Pierrette. Said Mme. Philippe Coulombe: "I have just taken 20 steps down the street, when for a long time I have not been able to take two steps in my kitchen without my crutches...