Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist? During last year's Austrian elections, a quip was heard around the polls: "Nobody who owns a watch is Communist in Austria." When the returns were in, the Communists had managed to roll up only 5% of the country's vote (the Volkspartei polled some 50%, the Socialists some 45%). From their brief intermezzo of glory under Russia's exclusive occupation, they retained only one dull portfolio (Power & Electricity) and three seats in Parliament...
...Dewey") starts his day at 7:30 a.m., ends it at 9 p.m. He shaves himself with an electric razor, breakfasts with his physicist daughter before she goes to work, then starts tapping away on a typewriter battered by years of hunt-&-peck. Magazine articles and essays still roll out of the machine in the inimitably cluttered prose that has marked Dewey since his first published work...
...Watters learned about jazz secondhand. When he was born in Santa Cruz, Calif, in 1911, Pianist Jelly Roll Morton was ragtiming the opera Martha up & down the Mississippi; Bunk Johnson was playing his cornet in Storyville's famous Eagle Band and teaching his eleven-year-old "boy Louis" (Armstrong) to blow his first blues. Bull-necked Lu Watters was less than 11 when he blew his first trumpet...
Scientists cheered another indication that the Atomic Age was starting to roll. After long delay and soul-searching, the Manhattan District this week agreed to supply qualified customers with about 100 radioactive isotopes produced in its Oak Ridge uranium piles. For chemists, physicists and biologists the isotopes are important scientific tools...
...Campo 35. But there was another time at another place. After Italy surrendered, the Nazis moved Allied P.W.s by the carload into Germany. There at last Millar had his chance. With a friend, he made a break from a railroad train near Munich. They had laid careful plans: a roll of marks, suitable clothing, a nearby underground contact. At night the train guards were sleepy. The prisoners went into the lava-tory of the third-class coach, closed the door, forced the window and climbed out. "At intervals telegraph poles whisked past our noses with a blowing noise, like seals...