Word: roiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometimes when waves are beating strongly on a beach, an extraordinary outward current of returning water develops, clashes with oncoming breakers, creates a zone of roil and foam called "rip tide." Last week just such a countercurrent of public opinion was beginning to run stronger & stronger against the surging Sit-Down. Governors White of Mississippi, worried about a pajama factory sitdown, and Allred of Texas, worried about the C. I. O. oil drive starting this week, announced that they would oppose Sit-Downs with all the force at their command. With many a State legislature discussing the subject, Vermont...
...downpour roil and toil! The worst it can do to me Is carry some garden soil A little nearer...
...stately white-bearded King Leopold of Belgium unexpectedly appeared, seemed puzzled when the orchestra broke into God Save the King and Mortier, out of his head, jabbered, "It's not you!" At the height of this confusion Edward VII arrived, almost went unnoticed until Mortier, shouting "Vive le Roil" ran back and forth crying, "I have two kings...
...Washington wiseacres see this Navy as a net to prevent the Japanese carp from becoming so exuberant as to try an Eastward leap. Hirosi Saito's job is to convince the man in the White House that, at any rate, the carp will not permit the net to roil his own Asiatic waters...
...Vive le Roil Vive la France!" cried a throng of French and Brazilian Royalists, some of them poor people who had come all the way to Palermo at great personal sacrifice. "Vive le Dauphin! Vive la Princesse...