Word: roll
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Texas Aggies figure large on the roll of U.S. heroes in World War II. An Aggie "sighted sub, sank same." Another (Major General George F. Moore) directed the coastal defense at Corregidor. Aggies have won D.S.C.s like football games. Twenty-eight of them died on Bataan and Corregidor. The Aggies are proud of their military record. They like to recall the example of the Class of 1917, which held its commencement at a training camp, joined...
Only to the uninitiated, the "icebergs," who let the balls roll undirected about the board, is pinball a game of luck. True pinsters all swear that skill alone controls the boards. Most of the pin language, however, suggests that fate does take a hand in the proceedings. For example, when a pinster triumphs and wins free games, "fees," spectators race about in a mystic trance shouting "Pinball," a call as rousing to Bow Street as Rheinhardt is to the Yard. But bewailing bad luck takes up much more space in the pinball dictionary. A streak of poor playing is described...
Wavell, Brereton, a few other officers flew by night to Ceylon, then on to India. Brereton had with him a pistol, a few faded tropical uniforms which he had picked up from Australians in Java, and a blanket roll. He called the blanket roll "Baby," and it was precious: inside was $250,000 in U.S. currency. The money was to have paid and supplied U.S. troops who never arrived in Java. Like many another such bankroll, it had been handed out by Chief of Staff George C. Marshall in Washington, on the premise that you never could tell...
Poised for such a strike is a Jap army of 1,000,000 on the Manchukuoan frontier. Thousands of men are building new highways and railways over which the mechanized divisions would roll. Between 1934 and 1939 airfields along the Siberian border have been increased from 130 to 250. If Japan could afford the planes to stock these airfields and give her northern army aerial support, the chances of a drive on eastern Siberia would be better...
...place on the wall behind his chair, where Old Glory's furls are draped, a fresh list of dead heroes of America killed in battle and never fully supported by our country's efforts. And let the President of the United States face at his desk that roll of the dead. . . ." In another editorial the News quoted a letter, addressed to President Roosevelt, from an indignant Texas grandmother, Mrs. J. M. Isbelle: "My 22-year-old grandson . . . has been in camp 18 months or more, and never a gun yet. Shall they fight with bare fists...