rockbound

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After reeling off a few contemporary images�"nemesis clouds," "putrid smoke," "noxious oxides"�he got to Fuller's Maine point: A nd the rockbound coast Is threatened by the super Tankers disgorging crude oil On the tide .

From Time Magazine Archive

The words are supposed to remind the 1,150 students of their school's rockbound commitment to morality, probity and restraint.

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The excitement of the stock flurry was mild compared to some that the rockbound, conservative Bank of New York has had since it was founded by Alexander Hamilton.

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He had been the front runner, the sincere, often eloquent Abe Lincoln with the rockbound Maine integrity �who contrasted so sharply with the expedient, unlovable Richard Nixon.

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John Hiram Gilbreth died in 1871, leaving his three-year-old son, two older daughters, and a stern and rockbound widow.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey