Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From somewhere in Germany TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson, who last week watched Lieut. General William Simpson's fresh and powerful Ninth Army roll up to the Rhine, cabled...
...seventh floor of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier (see above), his hope of avoiding wartime political controversy went glimmering. Down in a gilded ballroom on the first floor, National Tory Leader John Bracken was addressing a Party convention. Some 500 Tories, banquet-fed on roast beef and raspberry roll, heard Bracken roar a familiar Tory charge: "inadequacy of [Army] reinforcements...
...rigorous life? All in all the prospects look so pleasant all the way from the banks of the Passaic to the shores of Oakland that all we can do now is to wait until the eighteenth for the happy boys, happy stories, and new acquisitions to roll back into Boston
South of Manila, 11th Division paratroopers and amphibious forces struck suddenly for the prison camp at Los Baños, 25 miles behind the Japanese lines. They caught the darkly sinister commandant, Lieut. Konishi, lining up his charges for morning roll call. They killed the lieutenant and his 243 guards, rescued 2,146 sick and starving civilian internees...
Textiles. The long awaited orders to roll back textile prices 6 or 7%, and to allocate cloth to producers of low-priced goods, was ready for enforcement. The more obstreperous groups in the textile industry greeted the order with cat calls, others met it with stony silence...