Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Department of Employment kept its Los Angeles offices open nights, interviewed 3,100 former North American employees, soon sent 2,126 out on firm job opportunities in an area where unemployment has been down at a rock-bottom 3% for years...
...Abbot of Bazinham once computed that in the first thousand years after Charlemagne, French currency was devalued 40 times. In the 19th century, the gold franc was such a rock that the currencies of half Europe were pegged to it. Lately, though officially pegged since 1949 at 350 to the dollar, the franc has fallen almost as often as French governments. Last week at long last the French government took notice of the franc's real worth and, without using the horrid word devaluation, in fact devalued...
...climbed to the top (15,781 ft.), and 65 have died on the way. But in all those years, mountaineers mastered only four routes to the peak itself. Attempted but never conquered was a possible fifth way, the Grand Pilastre, a 5,000-ft. perpendicular wall of gripless, smooth rock and slithery green ice that looms over empty space toward the summit. Last week the Grand Pilastre was finally conquered in a fantastic three-day climb by Italy's Walter Bonatti, 27, and Toni Gobbi, 43. Awed alpinists compared it to the first four-minute mile...
...young man entrusted with saving France from economic folly. Handsome, lanky Félix Gaillard at 37 is France's youngest Finance Minister of the century. A man who comes from the cognac country, wears the Rosette of the Resistance, plays clean classic piano and dirty rock 'n' roll, Politician Gaillard is a man with a mission. For his colleagues he drew a lucid and gloomy picture...
...graces are gone. Over the pea-green waters of the 500-year-old, moss-and lichen-encrusted Imperial Moat, big-winged black butterflies flutter languidly. Within the Imperial Palace grounds (visited by 700,000 Japanese yearly) swarms of graceful scarlet dragonflies dip and glitter in the sunshine. In tiny rock gardens behind the bamboo walls of private homes, artificial fountains gurgle, and tiny bells tinkle to the slightest breeze. Traffic cops, sweating in their summer khakis, pause to admire carefully arranged clusters of chrysanthemums set in their dusty control stations, sip glasses of hot green tea to keep cool...