Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There's nothing amazing about what I've done. There are thousands of guys in the country who could do the same thing. Let more little fellows like myself have the subcontracts and you will really see the defense program roll. Even the machinery problem won't bother them. Those fellows can make their...
...adventuress, and a San Francisco private detective. And when the spectator sees the quartet assembled in the detective's apartment for the denouemeut, he has hardly more idea of what comes next than when he hears the first shot ring out and sees the victim crumple up and roll down the embankment...
...tower at 2:13 a.m., pulling on to a siding so that a fast passenger train can pass at 3:04 p.m. Men on their runs at 6 a.m. would deliver their trains to terminals before going on strike; members would stay away from railroad property, avoid all violence; roll would be called twice a day in local strike headquarters; no striker could stay away from roll call without an excuse...
...well done, worries a good deal about naval etiquette. An "O.K., sir" instead of an "Aye. Aye, sir" turns him purple with rage. But when anyone complains about seeing sailors loaded to the gunnels staggering around Manila, he steps stoutly to their defense. When seamen, after weeks at sea, roll ashore, he feels they sometimes have a right to "make a rough liberty." Anyhow, he adds complacently, only about 100 are ever reported for misconduct on any one particular night, which is no worse than the average for college boys after a football game...
Other medium-tank production lines were beginning to roll at Baldwin Locomotive, Pullman-Standard, Pressed Steel Car. Lima Locomotive will soon be in production. Some, perhaps all of these, will soon get speed-up orders. But the big push will come from Ford and General Motors. With plants already available and top priorities for tools, they are expected to be in production by summer...