Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wave of enlistments was no nine-day wonder. Every time it receded a new bulletin from the Pacific helped roll it up again. Good news or bad-either kind made men want to join...
...that Russia presents, it is quite immaterial whether the German forces establish their positions 50 or 60 kilometers east or west." On to Berlin! From Moscow via Stock holm came news that Joseph Stalin had called together his highest war chiefs and told them to press their advantage, to roll the Germans on & on, to defeat them on their own blood-dry soil. Since it took the German central Armies five great battles to get within field-glass view of Moscow, it was not likely that the Russians would now be able to surge in one unbroken wave to Stettin...
...Italy, 90-to-0. The House voted war with Germany, 393-to-0. (In both House votes, Republican Pacifist Jeannette Rankin cinched her footnote place in history piping "Present"-a refusal to vote.) After the declaration of war with Germany was passed, the House galleries held up the second roll call by noisily tromping out. War with Italy (399-to-0) wasn't worth sitting...
...Douglas Aircraft (two-and four-engined bombers) began changing from a five-to a six-day week. At Ypsilanti, Mich. Ford-men worked 24 hours daily (under big floodlights at night) to finish the biggest U.S. bomber plant (see cut). The first mass-produced four-engined bomber should roll out of Ypsilanti by spring, but handmade jobs from Ford's Dearborn plant are expected before Christmas...
Between air raids last week they could hear the roll of artillery, the rattling patter of rifles and machine guns from across the narrow waters. As they watched the hills they hoped beyond any expression in stiff British communiqués that soon Chinese troops might be coming over the weather-worn humps on the horizon to raise the Japanese siege. Striking from behind the ridge of hills where for three years they had lined the colony's border, Japanese troops, two divisions strong, had burst through British territory to the waterfront of Kowloon (center of picture). The Japanese...