Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaping from their tanks, the crews take no time to wash the desert paste from raw faces. They seize shovels, quickly dig slit trenches just deep enough to lie in full length below the desert floor. Beside each trench goes a bedding roll. Then the tankers turn to washing. They use their water cautiously. One gallon a day has to suffice each man for drinking, cooking, cleaning his mess gear, washing himself...
...good drummer knows not only the code messages, but code names for some 200 people. Sometimes in the early morning, when sound travels best, he will make a roll call of all important people in the district. Dr. Good passes on some good advice for drummers: "Don't lean over the drum or its sound will be muffled. Look in the direction you wish the sound to go. A good drummer must not eat chicken wings, give them to someone else...
...belief that the student body should roll up its sleeves but keep its shirt on was the reaction of University officials to Secretary of War Stimson's statement concerning the Enlisted Reserve Corps...
...meantime Colonel Carlson had led the main group of Marines toward the heart of the island. They crept into several shacks, found them empty except for such things as a piano and a roll of sacred music (the Marines found no trace of several Catholic nuns who had been on the islands). The clatter of the Jap machine gun, firing at Lieut. Le-François, first told Colonel Carlson that his landing had been detected. Then the Marines heard the hard chatter of truck and motorcycle engines, the flat crack of snipers' bullets from the palms...
Even with their old equipment the railroads will this year roll up to an impressive 50 billion passenger-miles, some 70% more than last year, an astonishing 35% greater than the previous peak in 1921 (see graph) -there will be 400,000,000 fewer passengers than in 1921 but the average passenger is now riding almost three times as far. Moreover, since Pearl Harbor 6,584,422 troops (more than three times as many as in the corresponding months of World War I) have taken train trips. If these wartime habits persist at all, long-distance de luxe coach travel...