Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roll call began; 45 minutes of grinding suspense as the clerk growled out the 432 names, listened for an answer, repeated the vote. The jammed galleries seemed hung over the rails. The little tally meter of Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen registered 204 aye votes, 201 nay votes. (Twenty-seven were not voting.) Hubbub boiled about the rostrum...
...Roll Out the Barrel. Most pusillanimous attempt to catch votes came in the section dealing with farm-commodity prices. In this session the Congressional farm bloc has repeatedly wrested huge gains for the farmer from the Administration, only two months ago forced the parity price up from 75 to 85%. (Parity is an artificial dream goal, based on the average farm price in relation to farm purchasing power for the years 1909-14.) The Administration, giving ground steadily before the farm inflationists, was now willing to grant 100% of parity. But in the desperate anxiety of last week...
...below and behind the plane's tail, the second man had jumped. Within ten seconds, the cabin was empty. The 'chutes drifted compactly together, behind the clump from the other plane, scudding swiftly downwind. The crews aboard the planes circling overhead saw the first jumpers hit ground, roll, vanish among their flattening parachutes. A flight sergeant yelled: "Hell, they're in the trees!" Some of the 'chutists had indeed gone into the trees; one landed in a creek. Damage: a couple of ripped 'chutes, no injuries...
...first is oil. Ever since the beginning of the war, natural oil refineries and stocks and synthetic fuel plants have been the primary R.A.F. target. The results were not too encouraging; the Nazis still seemed to have plenty of fuel to roll their tanks and lift their planes. But after the British had, at least for the time being, sewed up Iraq's oil, after the Germans had attacked one of their oil suppliers, Russia, after the Russians had done some damage in the Ploesti fields of Rumania, the oil barrage took on more point and more fury. Last...
Birling is far harder than rolling off a log. It is the art of staying on while others tumble. In birling, two sure-footed log-rollers, standing on a peeled log floating in the water, try to spin it so as to roll each other off. With eyes glued to the other fellow's calked shoes, they "cuff it" (roll the log), "snub it" (stop dead and reverse the rolling). First they roll a log 18 inches in diameter, then a 17-incher, finally a 16-incher ("the toothpick"). Two falls out of three wins a match...