Word: outcropping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department resembled a police missing persons' bureau last week, as U.S. diplomats from Santiago de Cuba to Berlin to Moscow grappled with a new outcrop of organized diplomatic crime. The problem: organized kidnaping of U.S. citizens overseas-47 in Cuba, nine in Russia, nine in East Germany-to be held until the U.S. pays ransom in the form of diplomatic concession...
Abandoning their tea, the prospectors followed Chiwaro to the place where he had found the rock. They worked carefully up the slope, pushing the veld grass gently aside with their hands, until they struck an outcrop of pegmatite and schist. It was the end of their search. Embedded in the soft, weather-beaten rock were emerald clusters, green and unmistakable...
...Then someone thought up the idea of melting it and forcing it to the surface with steam, and it revolutionized the industry. I think Shepherd's process may do the same for uranium." ¶ Jeeps with scintillometers roamed the back-country roads along Texas' Cap Rock, an outcrop of red sand and limestone running from Big Spring north to Amarillo. The rumor: the entire 200-mile stretch was hot. Other promising uranium areas were being opened up just across the Oklahoma line above Wichita Falls, in the Hueco Mountains near El Paso and in Brewster County...
Paleontologists know very little about that critical time, nearly 200 million years ago, when reptiles took the road that turned them into mammals, and eventually into man. They may know more soon. In the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona, an Indian Service agent found an outcrop of fossil-bearing rock. Driving down from Denver to investigate, Government Geologist G. Edward Lewis found that the fossils were in the Kayenta Formation, a rock stratum that runs through Navajo country for hundreds of miles. For fossil fanciers this was big news: in the Kayenta Formation fossils are almost unknown...
Based on a play by Hugh Hastings, Crest tells the plain tale of a minor scientific project set up by the British navy. A dozen officers and men, including three from the U.S. Navy, are sent to a rocky outcrop off the British coast with orders to develop a torpedo that will carry a new and highly sensitive explosive. As the camera grinds away at men and officers, it also grinds into the moviegoer's face the long, quiet pain of existing beneath a higher purpose. The work consoles what the isolation irks in the characters, but between...