Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, two Filipinos, two Czochs, two Chinese, an Austrian, and a Spaniard-this is not a roll-call of a Singapore bar, but he roster of foreign students who live at the International Club, Harvard's unique experiment in cooperative living...
Illinois, Wisconsin. Janizariat strategy calls for rolling up a clearcut Roosevelt victory in the New Hampshire March 12 primary (no opposition). Next step: to roll the bandwagon through the Wisconsin primary (April 2), then through Illinois. Into both these primaries stubborn old Jack Garner has stuck his red neck. Janizariat belief is that, after these two elections, the Vice President will be politically as dead as a doornail. The Kelly-Nash-Horner machine in Illinois has been told to pile up an overwhelming majority...
...suggestive art of America's leading mental stripteaser (Mae West) with the comic talents of one of the funniest men on earth (W. C. Fields). Together they make a comedy which is more hilarious than its grab-bag plot about a fancy lady, whose efforts to roll a penniless hair-oil salesman are insufficiently supported by good gags, has any right to be. It also suffers less than usual from the tendency of Comedienne West (who yearns to play Catherine the Great) to take herself too seriously...
...banking. For the soul of business today is in intricate corporations and impersonal directorates; it is bound by the steel hoops of Government supervision and of growing accountability to the public. With few exceptions it is no more the mirror of great individuals than are the streamlined Chevrolets that roll off the General Motors assembly lines...
...forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls the knees, when icy cuts them, making the "Ladies from Hell" roll their stockings high, like U. S. college girls. But they deny the War Office contention that kilts take too much wool, and they insist that the kilt is more healthful for Scots than trousers because they are accustomed to a warm wrapping for the abdomen...