Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among them: Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Chief of Staff General Alphonse Juin) chafed, killed time at the Azerbaijan Opera House, then caught a train for Stalingrad. There the General watched steel pour from the furnaces of the Red October Metal Plant (now restored to 60% of former production), tractors roll from the assembly line of the Stalingrad Tractor Works. General de Gaulle presented the "Homage of France" and the bronze plaque in memory of Stalingrad's defense to the city...
...Windshields from which water and snow will roll like water off a duck's back...
...chorus of Roll Out the Barrel the Valencia lumbered over the Italian fort. Fuses were lighted with cigarets, but there was almost disaster when the bomb stuck in the door. Finally the crew, their backs braced against the fuselage, managed to get the bomb away. The Valencia lurched crazily as the fort, squarely hit, disappeared in a cloud of smoke...
...left Cracow walking, carrying on a roll of microfilm 38 pages of plans and suggestions from the underground. His guide was worried, gloomy, reluctant. They slogged through the mud for three days. Karski could not go on, though the border of Hungary was only 15 miles away. They spent the night in a village. Karski was awakened by a gun butt mashed against his skull. He dropped his undeveloped microfilm into a barrel of water...
Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, busily engaged on the German front, was served notice by city officials of his home town, Moberly, Mo., that his 1945 auto license plates were on their way. They had assigned him license No. 1, hoping that the plates would roll into Berlin on the General's jeep before the license expired...