Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing golf I have often noticed that the best players seem to have the best luck. Their balls miss sand traps by inches, roll up on the green and stop near the hole; where others (mine) are apt to trickle into the pit or land short of the green by a few inches...
Below the Pripet Marshes, the offensive went more slowly, because before it could roll, the formidable frontier fortress of Przemysl had to be stormed. And near Luck the Russians offered up a Gargantuan tank battle...
When Nazi caissons roll, Nazi pencils, films and microphones roll too. Last week it was announced in Berlin that since the start of the war 82 members of the propaganda company had been killed in action. Breakdown: 29 reporters, 27 technicians and drivers, 15 still photographers, five newsreel photographers, four radio announcers, two cartoonists...
...freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with San Francisco's famed Olympic Club in big-time meets. As a high-school junior, he often cleared...
...World War I days; in Englewood. N.J. St. Louis-born of poor parents, she toured the British Empire and the U.S. in child dramatic parts. Featured in the Passing Shows of 1917 and 1918 and Hands Up, she made her last stage appearance in 1935, in Merrily We Roll Along. Married twice, each time to a songwriter, she was twice widowed, and although once reported wealthy, died an inmate of the Actors' Fund Home...