Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what was probably the biggest display of student enthusiasm since the end of the football season, University Republicans made a surprise rally behind Vandenberg on the third ballot to defeat Harold E. Stassen who had come within 20 votes of winning the nomination on the previous roll-call...
Some of them are also sticking their necks way out in predicting successes for their favorites. "Dowey is a cinch by the fourth ballot," according to John L. Casey 3L, his local campaign manager. Casey predicted that the Dewey bandwagon would get rolling by the second roll-call, and that the Nw York Governor would garner the nomination victory "with little trouble...
Plans have just been completed, and the whole affair will be conducted like a national convention. Keynote speeches will precede the nominating addresses. After these, the actual roll-call will be taken, and nominations considered on the split delegation basis through which every candidate gets the exact number of personal votes cast...
...advertising itself as "a drugstore, first, last and always," Billings and Stover started in 1854 to roll pills and three wars have not stood in its way. Over 1000 prescriptions were filled that first year--the same number are packaged now in a week. An all-around pharmacy from the first, the store initially provided "foreign louches of recent importation" to take care of black eyes in the days when John Harvard had no green bag to swing. Swelling eyelids didn't keep pace with the swelling business, however, and that exotic item was dropped...
When Strong Man Fulgencio Batista's candidate lost the presidency to hollow-eyed Ramon Grau San Martin in 1944's free elections, Batista promptly and discreetly took a plane for Miami. Since then, backed by a jumbo-sized bank roll, he has sat out a pleasant exile in some of the New World's toniest suites...