Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hughe Montgomery Knachtbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador, who was shot up when a Japanese plane strafed his car near Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937), reported that three men operating a large slingshot barely missed him with a fist-size rock...
...little group crossed two backyards, trampled three flower beds and thus reached the coast of Swampscott. They proceded to a large red the rock. Then each individual began to hack away the rock with his hammer. The Leader picked up a small piece; "Silurian amygdaloidal pyroxenite." And the group wrote in their little black books. This ritual they repeated at several other large rocks. Many slippery smaller rocks were in their way. And the sea burst its spray upon them. They all got their feet wet. And when they reached a very high point on the coast, one slipped...
...group went on. Finally, when they turned a bend in the coast, their pockets bulging with little rock specimens, they saw a group of maidens also with hammers hacking a big rock. The maidens were beautiful and came from Wellesley. They all looked very wise. When the maidens saw the young men approaching, they no longer looked wise but subtle. They disappeared among the big rocks...
...young men continued their study of the rocks. When they rounded the next bend, they again say the maidens, and each was looking under a ledge. When the maidens saw the young men, they stopped looking under the ledges. And so the two groups continued to weave in and out among the inlets and coves of the coast of Swampscott. After some time, the Leader, coming upon a very large rock extending far out into the sea, walked to its very edge and shouted: "Siluvian amygdaloidal pyroxenite." There was no answer...
...Little Rock a soldier safely back from seven weeks on maneuvers shot himself in the seat while handling a gun at a shooting gallery...