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Rocky Mount

American  

noun

  1. a city in NE North Carolina.


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A native of Rocky Mount, Virginia, Hodges was the seventh of nine children of Daisy and Tony Hodges.

From Washington Times • Nov. 24, 2023

Eight months before the March on Washington, King gave an address in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, with similar themes, including a dream.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Pfizer Inc on Thursday said the drugmaker will make some products available only through its emergency ordering process until further notice, as part of its additional steps to manage inventory at its Rocky Mount facility.

From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2023

The Rocky Mount plant produces anesthesia and many other drugs needed for surgeries but does not make or store Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine or the Comirnaty and Paxlovid treatments.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

During the summers, we would relocate to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, where Jimmie and I would work as chauffeur and maid for the Belchers, a wealthy White family in the lumber industry.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson