Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Rock, where high schools have been closed since last September, U.S. Judge John E. Miller forbade the newly elected school board to transfer school property to private-school groups or impede the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals integration mandate. The court did not order schools reopened, but told board members "to take affirmative steps on their own initiative" to integrate once schools are open, and to report such steps to him within 30 days...
...satisfy the voracious demands of the island's unpredictable, Oxford-educated former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff (who last year wanted to incorporate Malta into Britain itself, but now talks about making it a neutral port guaranteed by the U.N. Security Council), and unwilling to grant independence to the rock-bound island that must import nine times as much as it exports, the British suspended the 1947 constitution that allowed the 320,000 Maltese to elect their own representatives. Henceforth the British Governor will appoint his own council of advisers. Replied Mintoff: "Britain's days in the Mediterranean...
...people have skins so sensitive that it is possible to write on them with a fingernail or the smoothly curved end of a paper clip. This extreme sensitivity, called dermographia ("writing on the skin") is the usual explanation when patients complain that they are "allergic to everything," two Little Rock physicians reported in the A.M.A. Journal. Although the condition has been known for years, it is often overlooked and causes a lot of needless doctoring...
...repeatedly in the same spot, but this sensitivity usually wears off. Among adults, dermographia may occur in either sex and show up as redness and swelling around the belt or girdle line, or under shoulder straps or suspenders. Antihistamines are generally effective in controlling the reaction, say the Little Rock doctors...
...lava on much of the moon's surface, but he does not think that it welled out of a molten interior. Instead, he contends, it was formed on the spot by the energy of great meteors that hit the moon and melted both themselves and the local lunar rock. He thinks that the present surface material may be something like sand or gravel...