Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a bull walrus on a rock, old Louis II, Prince of Monaco, basked contentedly in the Mediterranean sun. At 75, Europe's No. 1 amateur ichthyologist and ruler of its smallest principality (370 acres, 1,761 Monégasques) might well feel that in history's game of chance, luck had been with him. Of all the Continent's occupied countries, Monaco was perhaps the least scarred...
...Golden World. Soon Q "set out a quire of virgin folio paper" and, under the influence of Robert Louis Stevenson, wrote his first adventure story (Dead Man's Rock). He also "asked the lady of my affection to be my wife. We had halted . . . beside a low wall coped by a quantity of wild thyme, on a tuft of which I rested a hand as I spoke and waited for her answer. To this day, halting before a tuft of the plant I press it and it recalls that answer in its fragrance." In "the general security of life...
They rounded a bend, started up a concrete path and saw a pair of 20-mm. Jap guns aimed down the trail. Charlie got them with a squirrel-hunter's "bark" shot, hitting the rock wall beside the guns and splattering them with shell and rock fragments. Next he blasted open the heavy steel doors of a Jap tunnel and set off a store of enemy ammunition...
Most of the missionaries' time had been spent in trying to improve the lives of their fellow fugitives. With medical supplies almost nonexistent, they dressed the wounds of guerrillas. In a deep gorge, they cut seats, altar, lectern and pulpit out of rock and fashioned a chapel. The congregation dwindled as U.S. submarines, supplying the guerrillas, began to evacuate some of the Americans. The missionaries chose to stay...
...greatest problem for many animals is to encounter and recognize a possible mate. A male lamprey eel apparently recognizes sex only by attaching himself with his suctorial mouth to another eel that clings to a rock. If the second eel lets go, it is a male and the two separate. If the second eel holds onto the rock, it is a female...