Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leadership will be effective only if its aims are identical with those of Congress. There is no indication that such is the case. Senator Taft is in favor of the Marshall Plan and aid to Europe, but on a scale far below that which the State Department deems a rock-bottom minimum. Representative Taber, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is not convinced that France and Italy need help. House Majority Leader Hallcck asserts that Mr. Truman's requests will be "shot full of holes" by the time Congress gets through with them; while Speaker Martin feels the whole thing...
...Corregidor, the Stars & Stripes, which were hauled down and burned just before the surrender to Japan on May 6, 1942, were pulled down again. After more than four decades as a U.S. fortress, the Rock was turned over to the new Philippines Republic...
...Canada Lee plays with dignity and fervor one of the few thoroughly unpatronizing screen roles ever given a Negro. Lilli Palmer is a sensitive and lovely actress. John Garfield, having dropped some of his Dead End mannerisms, gives a good performance that is as hard and simple as a rock...
...herders' settlement in the Swiss Alps 200 years ago. Far below in the village of Aire, the roar was heard in the middle of a clear June night. Next morning, the lovely, cattle-dotted valley of Derborence was choked with the 150,000,000 cubic feet of rock that had loomed over the region as the Devil's Tower. In Aire nearly every house had lost a husband, son or brother. Thérèse, who was pregnant, had lost her young husband Antoine, and her uncle Seraphin, with whom he shared...
...help the Chief this year are three newcomers to the Crimson coaching staff. Cleo O'Donnell, last year's football captain, is the backfield coach while Eddie Davis, the rock of the 1946 line, is helping Boston with the guards, tackles, and centers. Junior Tom Guthrie, a transfer from Notre Dame who is ineligible to play ball this year under Ivy League rules, handles the end squad-but without getting paid...