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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reclassified as colored means that he will have to leave his home, move into a colored neighborhood, lose his vote, his job. No one knows how many other little neighborhood tragedies are likely to follow, some, like that of Fred Nicholas, starting with a slingshot's rock through the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Man Between | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Carolina, Georgia and Virginia, and the attorneys general of Texas, Virginia and South Carolina, into a spate of purple phrases. "I hereby defy the ruling [of] the Supreme Court," snapped C. C. Owen, president of the Alabama Public Service Commission. Yet, elsewhere in the South, e.g., in Richmond, Little Rock, Dallas, many a bus driver calmly removed signs directing Negro passengers to the rear. In the North there was a crackle of excitement: newspapers front-paged the story, and editorial writers pontificated about constitutional law and the new need for wisdom and forbearance on both sides of the Mason-Dixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: The Bus Bust | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...beautiful Saturday afternoon here outside Soliders Field. Tension is mounting as the starting time for this twenty-year old classic drawns near. The forty racers are getting excited, but I'm calm. Yes sir, like a rock from conditioning. All muscles and guts. Staying power. That...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: A Veteran's Guide to the Big Race | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

This fossil is the only complete skeleton of a Kronosaurus ever found. William E. Schevill '27, research associate in Zoology at the museum, discovered it in 1931, embedded in rock in Army Downs, North Queensland, Australia...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Zoology Museum to Exhibit Largest Sea-Reptile Fossil | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

...room in the museum will be redesigned to display the skeleton. The bones will be fastened to a steel framework along one side, and a plaster-of-paris wall will be built to cover the frame and simulate the rock wall in which the reptile was found...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Zoology Museum to Exhibit Largest Sea-Reptile Fossil | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

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