Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tradition-loving U.S. Navy was getting set to pitch a sea bag full of salt-rimed traditions overboard. Ready for the deep six were the square collar (origin: to protect blouses from tarred pigtails), the black neckerchief (to mourn the death of Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week...
...plans are fashioned and practical; I shall roll up my sleeves-make America over...
...Chicago department store, a couple found a tricycle for their son's Christmas. But they balked at the price: $47.50. While they discussed the matter, a shabbily-dressed man pulled out a roll of bills, bought the tricycle, commenting loudly: "You can't take it with you, brother...
Reuther: I will tell you this, gentlemen, if it goes much longer you make it worse. . . . You turned it on. We have some more panzer divisions to roll out. . . . We have not turned on the full steam...
Same day, another youngster in the fast-growing family of Field enterprises had a birthday. For the four-year-old Chicago Sun, deep in the red, it was a red-letter day that saw its first A.P. copy (TIME, Dec. 10) roll out of clacking teletype printers. He was still being politely charitable about his rival, the Chicago Tribune's autocratic Robert Rutherford McCormick. Field's comment: "He runs a very efficient paper...