Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this midsummer is on the move, bag, baggage and children. Correspondent Charles Mohr, driving crosscountry from San Francisco to his new assignment in the Washington bureau, tuned in a sharp traveler's-eye view. Mohr noted, in addition to such phenomena as foam-rubber hats and rock-'n'-roll-loving Indians, that the new state turnpikes are working a special kind of havoc on a special kind of citizen. Reported Mohr: "I heard one traveler remark on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, as he gratefully approached Pittsburgh, 'This is the first time I ever passed through three states...
...rock upon which the Boers founded their great Afrikaner culture was the Dutch Reformed Church, a puritanical institution as sternly fundamentalist as the Dutch settlers themselves. Last week apartheid (segregation;, a latter-day fanatic projection of Afrikaner culture, ran smack aground the rock of the Reformed Church...
...when his widow telegraphed Montana's governor that the winning model of the seven submitted in a competition for a statue was "unlike the real Charlie Russell." World War II halted a second effort. Meantime, Charlie's friends and admirers -including just about every hard-rock miner, drive-in carhop and state legislator in the Treasure State-dug into their jeans for $75,000 to build a museum in Great Falls to house his works, anted up again to buy a collection of Russell paintings valued...
According to Cole, the era of the trial was "a period of frustration, uncertainty, and intolerance" marked by the re-emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. He quoted Bryan as saying that "it is more important to know "The Rock of Ages' than the age of rocks...
...screen of Robert Ruark's harder-hitting best-seller about the white British versus the black Mau-Mau in Africa. Laudably, the complex issues are not oversimplified; and both sides are properly shown to be at fault. Superlative performances by Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller and Juano Hernandez. Even Rock Hudson is good; and Dana Wynter's appearances are fortunately brief...