Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Rock...
Last week Vidkun Quisling was interrupted at his business of forcing Adolf Hitler's "new order" on winter-chilled Norway. Suddenly there were terrible reverberations in the western mountains, and whole mountainsides, loosened by rain and snow, roared down into the valleys. Masses of mud and rock clogged roads and highways, smashed houses and bridges, snapped telephone poles, blocked the vital Oslo-Bergen railway at ten different places...
...Highway, where the foothills with their sharp banks crowd each other like a pack of the cruel little boars of the Mexican brush, the Señor Henry Wallace saw signs of the event for which he had made his first crossing of the Rio Grande. Painted on the rock cuts near Tamazunchale (an old Huasteca Indian name pronounced by gringos Thomas & Charlie) were huge letters: TODO MEXICO CON AVILA CAMACHO -All Mexico with Avila Camacho...
...arrivals, threatened to cut off their supplies and redouble General Soddu's problem. British ships came up and shelled Porto Edda. Daily Allied airmen, through fair weather and foul, bombed and strafed the crawling lines of Italian supply trucks, against which Albanians also sniped and sent down rock falls...
...agenda of democracy calls for a sounder understanding of the relations between the executive and the legislative authority. Otherwise the ship of state may be wrecked upon this rock. I have already discussed the role of the legislative authority and repeat the main four points here, as follows: 1) fiscal allocations, 2) general policies or directives, 3) general supervision of administration, and 4) organization of controversy about national issues...