Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunisian campaign was still at a stalemate (see below), but General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery continued to roll along the flat and ugly coast. Transport planes helped move up his vast and vital supplies. Last week, when his Eighth Army marched under the ludicrous triumphal Marble Arch near El Aghéila, one of several which Mussolini had erected along his African highway, he was farther west than any British commander had ever been before in the long, seesaw African campaign...
...grew rougher, Lieut. Commander Noah Adair, the Angry's captain, pulled his weatherproof hood tighter over his red thatch, drew the voluminous coat closer around his tall, lanky frame. The bridge, where he stood swaying with the ship's roll, was open to rain, wind and spray, except for a strip of canvas lashed to the rail and another strip overhead...
...Crossroads. In November, when the British Eighth Army began to roll into Libya, the Italians told Bennie Hermer to prepare to leave for a prison camp in Europe. That night he escaped, and next day he joined advance forces of Montgomery's army pushing toward Benghasi. The day Olda stepped out of the train at Cairo's main station, Bennie arrived at the Cairo hospital from Benghasi...
...last Confederate soldier to sit in the Episcopal House of Bishops. Two sons have followed him there-Henry St. George and Bishop Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr. of Ohio. Two other sons are U.S. rectors and two more missionaries in China. Twelve Tuckers are now on the Episcopal clergy roll...
When war broke out Lukens was a natural-for one thing its big mill could roll plates twice as thick and 40 in. wider than anyone else. So the Navy placed orders for battleship armor up to 9½ in. thick, welded marine-engine blocks and submarine parts; the Army ordered light tank armor, antiaircraft gun bases, other fabricated steel parts. To boost output faster Defense Plant Corp. okayed a $25,000,000 plant expansion (total plant in 1940: $8,385,000). Result: in 1939-42 Lukens almost tripled employment to 6,000, quadrupled sales to $47,000,000, multiplied...