Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Flood Byrd's Democratic machine rumbled through Old Virginny last week. Snuffing out some leftist opposition, it safely assured its own man, Lieut. Governor William Munford Tuck, 48, of getting the Governor's chair. Thus, if ailing Senator Carter Glass, 87-who has not answered a roll-call in three years-retires or dies, his successor will be a hand-picked Byrdman...
...busy during the war lining up a nationwide distribution organization while its factories were spouting $2.8 billion of war goods. Soon these distributors will have something to sell. Bendix plants making auto parts will be in mass production by late fall. New type AM and FM radio sets can roll off the assembly lines immediately...
...Churchill had to leave the building by a side door, come in another door to a little anteroom. Truman and Stalin were in other anterooms. Complicated signals set them all in coordinated motion. Stalin would roll in with his bearish gait; Churchill plodded; Clement Attlee walked sedately ; Truman almost skipped in (which was all right because his anteroom was just a little farther away...
This gave Pine & Thomas, who call themselves the "Dollar Bills," what few other class-B moviemakers have: a big bank roll and a spigot for their potboilers in Paramount's 11,000 outlets. Result: By last week the Dollar Bills were 1) producing pictures at an average cost of $125,000; grossing an average $600,000 on each, 2) top class-B producers in Hollywood, 3) among the highest paid moviemakers in the business. This year they will collect about $700,000 (before taxes) for their work...
...into center, allowing Foley to score and Roche to reach third. Swegan banged out a single to center scoring Roche, and came home after Allen walked and Wallace belted one to left. Bucek rapped a ball which was cinch for the third baseman to handle but he let it roll through his legs, Allen and Wallace scoring the fourth and fifth runs of the inning...