Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tags. At Camp Blanding, Fla., a sergeant summoning Privates Leo Meunier, Leo Meunier, Rene Meunier and Rene Meunier, none related, simplified matters by calling them L.P., L.Z., RJ. and R.R. At Jefferson Barracks, Mo., a roll-calling corporal called Privates Zlvelachoski, Korczykowksi, Svidunovich, and Squrtieri as best he could...
...joke. The pension provision, buried in a general civil service pension bill, had passed the House without a word of debate, without a roll calla Congressional device often used to avoid later embarrassment. In the Senate, silent acquiescence had been spoiled by the noisy opposition of Virginia's veteran pinchfist, Harry F. Byrd. Their names were writ large on the record...
...guarded bastions, civilians and soldiers can see the great, three-cratered volcano of Tangkoeban Prahu ("The Overturned Boat"). (Volcanoes-some dangerously alive, some long dead-rib the narrow island from end to end.) The city of Bandung lies in a flat-bottomed bowl in the hills. And "the thunderstorms roll about the hills all the afternoons, retired Dutch officers roll about the golf courses all the mornings, tanks and machine-gun carriers roll across the fields . . . and practice jungle war on the higher slopes...
...Because he double-crossed Pluto, Sisyphus in Hades was made to roll a big stone up a steep hill forever. Just before he reaches the top, the stone always rolled down again...
Since the time of "Lo, the butter stinketh" criticism of Harvard food has not approached that existing today. Besides, petitions in the various Houses the complaint has taken the form of arguments with waitresses and roll fights. It seems obvious that the present system will not be tolerated by the student body for long. If the Dining Halls expect to solve their financial deficit by such means I am afraid they shall fail...