Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conclusion: "The manuscript, the roll, the tablet [precursors of books] have often come through centuries. . . . The book and the library have been respected and safeguarded, even in war, as the very corporate mind of society. In 1939, society . . . turned upon itself and deliberately strove to destroy . . . that mind. It succeeded in a large measure...
Dutch voices here in Java are quick to blame their own "woodenheaded" Parliament for its inability to roll with the punches in imperial British style. Many admit that the freedom movement had not been "made in Japan" (however much it was nurtured by Tokyo). President Soekarno had openly collaborated with the Japanese; but anti-Jap natives still rallied to his nationalist party...
...basketball teams ever stirred the fans or stumped the experts like this year's Notre Dame crew. One day they put on terrific second-half rallies; next day they roll up a lead and play second-half dead ducks. They have won six of their twelve games by a bare three-point margin or less...
...Army has the job of supervising and policing 15,000,000 civilians and destroying Germany's ability to make war; it has the same kind of job in the Pacific. G.I.s also have to protect $14 billion of U.S. property scattered around the globe. They have to roll up the bases. At home they have the job of keeping house and demobilizing their highpoint colleagues...
Curious crowds jammed the narrow sidewalks of Princes Street. Solemnly they watched the delegates of 51 nations roll up in their cars, and file into Central Hall...