Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHARLES ENEMARK Rock Island...
Died. Abraham Merritt, 59, editor Hearst's American Weekly; of a heart ailment ; in Indian Rock Beach, Fla. An associate editor of the Weekly since 1912, Scientifictioneer Merritt became editor in 1937; since then the Sunday supplement's circulation has grown from 6,000,000 to almost 8,000,000. On the side he was a cold-sweat novelist (Seven Footprints to Satan) and a garden cultivator of mandrake, monkshood and other varieties of backyard deliriants...
...planes had just dive-bombed the jutting rock of Troina where it stuck up like an island amid the circling mountain peaks. Black smoke curled upward in columns, merging into one big black cloud beneath which Troina disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first...
...north coast road; the Royal Navy ripped the highway on the island's other side. Over Messina converged the Allied air arm, bombing and gunning, by day and night, the barges and small boats shuttling Germans from Sicily to Italy, from the whirlpool of Charybdis to the rock of Scylla...
...weeks he masters landings and take-offs from rock-strewn flying strips, edged with trees and telephone wires. Students learn to land on curves in rutted dirt roads, to take off and clear soft. obstacles in 400 ft. Grasshopper tactics are simple: stay as low as possible, come down as soon as possible. Six hundred feet is the prescribed ceiling; from that altitude grasshoppers can make accurate corrections on targets six miles away. From 600 ft. pilots can land and hide their planes in heavy brush in less than one minute...