Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Molotov visited the White House, "one of the valets was quite astounded ... to find inside [his suitcase] a large chunk of black bread, a roll of sausage and a pistol...
Both Kirkland and Calhoun suffered mediocre seasons, but the Deacons lightened up their defense in their last three games. If Kirkland can throttle the Calhoun attack, perhaps the power plays of Tom Lamb and Frank Nolan can roll up a winning score...
Despite some officers' worst fears, the new CNO said no heads would roll. Naval Aviator Sherman asked Vice Admiral John Dale Price, Denfeld's vice chief of operations and an airman, to stay on at his job until spring. After that, Rear Admiral Lynde Dupuy McCormick, a submariner, now boss of the 12th Naval District, will become vice chief. The Navy's two top jobs are usually split between a seagoing admiral and an airman. Sherman abolished Operation 23, which had been disseminating anonymous pro-Navy propaganda during the months of political feuding, but took no punitive...
...Noonan, Harvard's kicker and passer, was clipped by one man and "roll-blocked" from the front by another at the same instant, an appreciable time after the whistle had blown to stop play. He hasn't been on the field since,' he said...
...lyrics of Johnny Mercer only seemed to be genuinely felicitous in a few numbers, notably in a yodeling song "They Talk a Different Language" and in "Love Me, Love My Dog." The direction of Paul Crabtree seemed to be striving for adolescent stage humor, such as having the men roll up their trousers to reveal garters, and allowing excessive mugging by the dancers, even to the extent of permitting one to feign illness and rush into the wings to vomit. Oh yes--there is a small girl in the show who re-unites the lovers and who looks very, very...