Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...borrowed the well-worn agate shooter of the Pittsburgh kid who won the crown two years ago. He had also prepared for Wildwood's fast rings by doing most of his marble-shooting on an asphalt tennis court near his home on Winterburn Avenue. His secret: "Just roll it into the ring and put a little spin on it, that...
...passed on a roll call vote, 196 to 133, and sent to the Senate a bill by Delegate Joseph R. Farrington (R-Hawaii) to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the other 48 states...
...Lytton. The proclamation was read, the Royal Standard was hoisted, and artillery fired a grand salute of 101 salvos. Mixed bands played God Save the Queen, then trumpeted the blaring march from Tannhduser. Richly caparisoned elephants trumpeted too, and rushed wildly about with trunks erect when they heard the roll of musketry...
...Initiated. Without a 'big bank roll, Partisan Review has filled its pages with big-name writers to whom it has offered not money but space: a place to be as highbrow as they like, to talk to their own kind and never mind being intelligible to the uninitiated. The result has been sometimes stuffy, oftentimes overreaching, but usually stimulating. Such first-rate writers and critics as Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Andre Gide and Edmund Wilson have sold Partisan Review articles for a token $2 a page. Poets T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Karl Shapiro...
...Roll with the Fall. During the war, United's Pratt & Whitney and licensees accounted for 47.5% of U.S. aircraft engines (measured in horsepower) and the Hamilton Standard division for 75% of all propellers. The Sikorsky division made 400 helicopters for the military. United's gross business mushroomed from $37,000,000 in 1938 to $484,000,000 in 1945. When cutbacks came, and United's payroll dropped from 76,000 to 25,000, the company managed to roll with the fall. It closed seven branch plants, returned $51,750,000 worth of equipment to the Government...