Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling of the West Germans. One Berlin student puts it this way: "Every time I go to the West I'm more and more surprised how little those people really care about reunification. They've sailed through the storm into fine weather and they just don't want to rock the boat...
...conscientious watch on the murderers, thieves and other criminals who were their wards, and they released term-enders on schedule. But they refused to admit new convicts, barred lawyers from seeing their clients, and would not deliver up jailed defendants to court for trial. Visiting hours were canceled, rock-breaking ceased, and in their cells prisoners enjoyed a relaxed if fettered vacation. The Paris police prefecture, which handles a big transient traffic in felons, found itself overwhelmed with unwanted undesirables...
There is evidence that pressure in the rock has been building up. Survey monuments on opposite sides of the great fault have been pulling apart at the mean rate of 2 in. per year. Such slow shifting does not relieve forces; it is a sign that they are increasing relentlessly. Within the last fortnight, California has had two moderate earthquakes, with many lesser shocks following them. Richter does not know whether they are warning forerunners of a really big jolt. But he and his colleagues feel that the San Andreas Fault has been quiet so long that it cannot...
Inland's expansion, like the others, is intended to meet not only present but future needs. Among Inland's projects: a seven-year exploitation, started in 1953, to expand iron-ore mining at Financier Cyrus Eaton's Steep Rock development in Ontario (TIME, March 9, 1953), from which Inland hopes to get 3,000,000 tons a year by 1969; a 19-story, stainless-steel office building, one of the few new skyscrapers in Chicago since the Depression; a land-filling project near Inland's Indiana Harbor plant on Lake Michigan's south shore...
...specialist's curiosity. She evokes that sense of private peace and mystical wonder that Anne Lindbergh brought to her Gift from the Sea. She explores and celebrates a world of ferment and vitality, from the humble mole crab to the dog-whelk snail, from submarine forests to rock pools...