Word: rockingly
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...headed General Owen O'Duffy. founder of the United Ireland opposition party, was rallying his blue-shirted Irish Fascists to a meeting in the little Kerry town of Tralee by the sea, they got the feel of a shillalah in one hand, the heft of a handful of rock in the other and tramped into Tralee. When they saw the Blue Shirts coming they flung their rocks, howling ''Up de Valera!", "O'Duffy is a traitor!", then ducked in for the shillalah work. Some of them set upon General O'Duffy, bludgeoned him bloody-pated...
...wife and son both saw it and stood dumb with amazement; then to our horror the thing rushed up to a high rock and thrust its great head and neck a full ten feet out of the water and waved it about as if it were getting its bearings. It was some 500 yards away and I could not see the exact shape of its head, but it was much thicker than the body. Then it sank down into the water again and sped away, making a great wash of white foam...
Major Langley also put the creature's length at 80 ft., and likewise saw it waving its head near a rock. It was, in fact, said Major Langley, scratching its neck on the barnacles-after which, with something like a grin of gratification, it swashed off toward Chatham Island. It had, said Major Langley, a shaggy head with a long prognathous jaw and a face like a camel...
...room, that a trip to the club cabin on Mt. Washington has been arranged for next Sunday. Those who take the trip will busy themselves with clearing a long ski-trail and building a shelter near the cabin for the supplies to be used this winter. Mountaineering trips, local rock-climbs, and skiing expeditions have been planned for nearly every week end throughout the year, as well as several club dinners and lectures...
Professor Mather, quick to see the mistake, was too eager to rectify the quake. So he erased the new order of things, substituted the old (LEFT CENTRE RIGHT). With heads like rock and feet like sheep, the human debris of the last quake quaked again, until the official seating arrangement was finally restored. Thus it was learnt that a class in geology can take an active part in a first-class cataclysm, and still have half an hour left for sleep or for hearing a lecture on the character and ancestors of the responsible Mr. Fate, who slyly escaped...