Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing they could not stop or divert. To the platform went a shrunken, tottery little oldster, 82-year-old Carter Glass of Virginia, a man of vinegar aspect, of high conviction, a man of law and principle, long since outmoded but steadfast in his faith in tradition's rock...
Sweating, trembling, his face rock-graven, Paul McNutt stood on the platform, drawing the greatest ovation of the Convention; a starving man pushing food away. He drew a carefully typed statement from his pocket, began: "In the first place . . ." but the crowd shouted him down. Up & down the aisles strode Jimmy Byrnes, whispering angrily: "For God's sake, do you want a President or a Vice President?" For Franklin Roosevelt had postponed his acceptance speech until the work of the Convention was done, i.e., until Wallace was nominated...
FREDERICK W. ROLF Rock Island...
...friendship, and Spain's occupation of Tangier last fortnight was no friendly omen. The pounding which Franco's guns could give warships inside Gibraltar's moles and booms would certainly be disastrous and perhaps, over a period of weeks, big shells could smash away the Rock's friable limestone-of which every splinter becomes a missile when a shell explodes-to expose the defenders' guns to ultimate destruction. If that should happen, Benito Mussolini would escape his Mediterranean cage...
...members of the Foreign Legion performed the most reckless "Beau Geste" of all at the fortresses of Joux and L'Ecluse. These strongholds, cut into shoulders of the Jura Mountains above Bellegarde near the Swiss frontier, dominate a series of narrow gorges where the Rhone boils under sheer rock cliffs. The Legionnaires' commander telephoned to the nearest German general, at Pontarlier: "Come and get us." The Germans came. They captured Bellegarde. When they stormed up to the forts, the Legionnaires threw them back, threw them out of the town. As fast as the Germans landed parachute troops...