Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the rock rolled back to the bottom of the hill. As their share in the Victory Program, the War Production Board asked the toolmakers for $166,000,000 worth per month...
...Rock, the most nearly immaculate story in the book, a decent young man betrays all human decency under wifely pressure, in his responsibility as witness of a street fight between a gangster and a proud little taxi driver...
Wave upon wave, coming in from the horizon, building up great mountains of water, building, coming, gathering, water and foam and sea power--then breaking against hard rock and warm sand, slapping with resounding boom, and washing back to the horizon again...
Flames shot up from the lonely peak, then faded. Searching parties started out over snow that bogged horses belly-deep. Men toiled up over flinty rock that shredded boots into uselessness, struggled vertically up through some of the most difficult, barren rockland...
Their road led across the highest tableland in the world, the Karakoram plateau of northern Tibet. The Kazaks set their faces toward the blue, snowcapped 20,000-foot wall of the Himalayas, worked their painful way through steep narrow gorges, over wind-filled passes like knife cuts in the rock...