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Word: rocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eyewitnesses testified that Homma's artillery and bombers blasted away at Corregidor for 24 hours after a white flag had been hoisted on the Rock's 660-ft. summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Footnotes to War II | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Charles Burrows, in the only true comic characterization, as Uncle Walt, the perennial senile hick, The rest of the cast waits of the plot to thicken an occasionally jell into a laugh. There are more than the usual number of chuckles and a few that make you rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "January Thaw" | 1/18/1946 | See Source »

...younger son was killed in action. He is buried in a barren cemetery of crushed rock near a smelly city in a desolate region populated by filthy, godless people. He is the father of a son born after his death. If my son's body is brought back it will be placed in a beautiful plot to be visited as a shrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...Blowing out a Candle had a more elusive humor-the blower is blown out along with the candle. His miserly Old Man Figuring seems to be plucking out sums like a harpist. Sometimes his stuff looks like-matchstick people that a U.S. Indian might have scratched on a rock. His Witch with a Comb would be an innocuous little old woman-in spite of her shoe-button eyes-except that her hands are arrows pointing straight down to the ground as if to say "I could kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art-for-My-Sake | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Slugger Mugger. In San Diego, Mrs. Sally Curtis complained that her ex-husband passionately kissed her, simultaneously conked her with a rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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