Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week was a place for remembering. One day the mist clung low toward Constitution Island, where General Washington's men laid the two iron chains across the Hudson that kept the Royal Navy out of Highland waters, and white clouds puffed and scudded like shellbursts around the big rock cliffs. Along with about 800 other ex-cadets, the President marched in the traditional alumni parade, slow-paced at 60 steps to the minute so that the older men could keep up. Watching over the parade was the academy's oldest living graduate, 95-year-old Major General Henry...
...quality he liked best was boldness. "And when you go out on the tide," he once advised a fellow yachtsman who was planning a cruise, "don't bother with the channel. Go out between the two little islands. It's narrow, and there's a big rock in the middle, and it will scare hell out of you. But it's beautiful...
...racing heyday after World War II. He traveled everywhere-Spain, England, Argentina-and everywhere other drivers ate his dust. He worked up a fine feud with Argentina's Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. In Brazil one day in 1949, he swung too wide on a turn, hit a roadside rock, turned turtle and wound up with a broken collarbone, three broken ribs and three fewer teeth than he started with...
...Oshima, outside Tokyo Bay, stands the active volcano Mihara. It bubbles with sulphurous vapor and at irregular intervals shoots out molten rock. Japan has many active volcanoes, but Mihara is specially famed because of the romantic lovers who frequently kill themselves by jumping down its throat. Before World War II, 80 to 90 did this each year, and the steamship company that serves Oshima got rich on tourists who flocked to the island, they said, to watch the volcano, but really to watch the suicides...
According to his theory, this meant that the rock in its core was getting hotter and approaching the melting point. In December came the proof: the volcano had a small but definite eruption. In 1953 and 1954 the pattern was repeated. Whenever the volcano's magnetism diminished appreciably, a period of activity followed in two to six months. The greater the change in magnetism, the stronger the activity...