Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commuters motoring by on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Its broad playing fields and ivied brick buildings, countrified by fieldstone fireplaces, are shaded by well-kept maples and oaks, bordered by neat shrubbery. At 9 each morning six big school busses and more than a dozen station wagons and cars roll up, unload well-scrubbed tots and adolescents from Bronxville, Yonkers, Tuckahoe, Riverdale, The Bronx, Manhattan. At 5 each afternoon, they roll home again...
Detroit has other enormous rooms, and out of them armies will roll and fleets will fly. Endlessly the lines will send tanks, jeeps, machine guns, cannon, air torpedoes, armored cars. Ford's River Rouge plant, where Ford steamships dump coal and iron ore and limestone to be magicked into steel and glass and machinery, has turned its two square miles of self-contained industrial empire to the tools...
...Henry Ford and his empire have converted themselves to war. The whole automobile industry has gone to war. Detroit-and not only its Henry Fords but its Bud Goodmans and Frank Morisettes and Eddie Hunts and Roscoe Smiths-had gone to war. The whole U.S. nation was going to roll up its sleeves and fix Armageddon...
...past, grinned at the star cockades on their fuselages. Few minutes later they heard some joyful sounds. Less than 15 miles north of the front line, over the wrecked naval station at Olongapo on Subic Bay, the P-4Os peeled out of formation, and the howl of their engines rolled down the peninsula. The men on the ground could hear the crump of bombs, the clatter of .50-caliber guns. From the mountaintops, outposts saw the P-40s whip up from the attack, roll over, dive again & again. Then smoke began to rise, great billowing clouds of it, and they...
...Hanover skaters swept through the league schedule without a defeat, winning eight games and aggregating eight goals per contest against some pretty sound opposition. Their mark of 64 goals and 66 assists, for a total of 130 points, may become legendary as the years roll by. On an over-all basis, the Green won 22 and lost two, stretching a winning streak over 19 games. Were a national tournament possible, the Indian at full strength would be an odds-on favorite...