Word: rockingly
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...Lightnings steadied for their runs they could see the great black rock that is Kiska. The Lightnings struck at the rock, and on top of the rock, as they flashed across, the pilots saw a swarm of men working-blasting, scraping, cracking stones. When the pilots pressed the buttons of their guns, and the tracers hurtled down and ricocheted off the rock, the men did not even hunt for cover on the coverless place; they just went on working...
...Republican strategy has been consistent: don't rock the boat. So thinking, most Republicans have laid off attacks on their leading candidates, have concentrated on larruping the President...
...Cabinet's viewpoint was one of its first acts: suspension (for two days) of the reactionary Istanbul newspaper Tasviri Efkar, for deriding America's war aims. Symbolic of unchanged domestic policies were the trainloads of minority Greeks, Armenians and Jews still leaving for prison-camp rock-piles because they could not meet a new capital...
...Secretary of the Navy, Harding offered him the Navy Secretaryship, Coolidge wanted him either as Secretary of Agriculture or Ambassador to Britain. In 1928 Lowden enjoyed a small corn-belt boom as independent candidate for the Presidential nomination; failing that, he retired to work his Illinois farm on the Rock River, occasionally received political bigwigs who came to him for advice...
...sponsored reorganization plans changed enough to make their holdings highly profitable. When the Court said no, receivership rail stocks on the New York Stock Exchange nose-dived 50 to 80%. Prices for junior bonds jumped the tracks. Western Pacific preferred stock flopped from $3 to 70?; Rock Island 7% preferred from...