Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slope of thier sides, and the distance to which debris has been dispersed around them, Gold concluded that they were scooped out by huge meteorites bombarding the moon from outer space at speeds of 112,000 m.p.h. At the point of impact, says Gold, the moon's surface rock must have been gasified at temperatures of up to 10,000,000°C. The accompanying explosions, he thinks, dug out the craters about the impact point, often leaving a small, punctured peak in the middle...
...sites for new churches, to Texas, where they are adding an average of two new churches to their rolls each week, the denomination is ticking as busily as Ted Adams' own church. "If you see a new building going up," says a real-estate man in Little Rock, Ark., "you can be sure it's either a new supermarket or a Baptist Church...
...soon regretted the investment: the copper ore was so heavily contaminated with uranium that nobody wanted to process it. Then the atomic age got into swing, and Cooper and the Bronson family forgot all about copper. Their Happy Jack mine never had a waste dump, because every pound of rock dug up was commercial-grade ore. Last week Cooper, now 45, and the Bronsons decided that the mine was too big for them to develop with their limited resources. They sold the Happy Jack to Barlu Oil Corp. for a price, based on the mine's production, that...
...satisfies the Negro's revenge fantasies by permitting him to be what the white world has dinned into him that he is, a would-be rapist and killer. According to Author Baldwin, the Negro's pent-up hostility shows up in far stranger places, e.g., the rock-'n'-roll sects of the Harlem storefront churches where his late father used to preach. Says Baldwin: "Religion operates here as a complete and exquisite fantasy revenge: white people own the earth and commit all manner of abomination and injustice on it; the bad will be punished...
...come to Rabat to make amends to the Sultan for having supported his banishment. The mob closed in, kicked and beat him, ripped off his white silken robes. "The Sultan may forget, but we will not forgive you!" cried one. The Caliph fought for his life, but a rock on the head finished...