Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against it on the final roll call were 33 Democrats, 112 Republicans...
...momentarily. He still drew curious crowds. But these things failed to cheer many Republican politicians. In their gloomy minds, they recalled the black year of 1936 when Alf Landon had had an early lead in polls. In 1928, the whole U. S. turned out to see Al Smith roll by, with cigar, brown derby, wisecracks, East S:dese ard all. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract crowds...
...purpose of the Network is to supply programs that major networks, for one reason or another, cannot give. College news and feature interviews, like those with the Wellesley hoop-roll queen or Col. Stoopnagle, fill an important spot at 10.45. Primarily, the Network wants to be a test tube where new ideas in music drama or talks can be tested and tried...
Lieut. Koche was quite safe in the prison camp. He had answered at roll call to the name of the man who had escaped, Naval Lieut. Günther Lorentz. Able to speak English almost without an accent, Lorentz was on his way to Montreal. After escaping, he disposed of his camp uniform (brown shirt and blue shorts) and put on a sack suit he had taken with him to Canada. He found Canada was a more delightful place than he had dreamed. A gasoline station gave him a map. A friendly fellow taught him a trick unknown in Europe...
...United States will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. No one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on in full flood, inexorable, irresistible, to broader lands and better days...