Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whole Story." With solemn gusto, Franklin Roosevelt then read the roll of the war measures which the Republicans in Congress had opposed: Repeal of the Arms Embargo, 1939; Selective Service, 1940; Lend-Lease, 1941; extension of Selective Service, August...
Being governor of a state in wartime is unspectacular. Revenues roll in, expenditures are down, job hunters scarce. Nevertheless, Tom Dewey had played his unspectacular part efficiently and well. He had surrounded himself with as able a team of top assistants as had ever been seen in Albany...
...side in the Kremlin, Stalin and Churchill talked to each group separately. Then they told them to get together. Weeks before, in London, Premier Mikolajczyk had told a group of U.S. Congressmen that he knew he would eventually have to yield to the Russians or "my head will roll." At week's end he had not lost his head...
...postwar U.S. income, in an attempt to clear up the confusion. Net result was to add to the confusion, by stirring up a first-class row among economists. For one thing, the Brookings estimate was $123 billion, substantially lower than the most popular $140 billion boxcar figure which businessmen roll off their tongues. But the Brookings Institution then went on, in a brochure titled Postwar National Income, to whack all other postwar estimators as, in effect, so many dizzards, noodles, lackwits and dunderheads. The distinguished list of numbskulls obviously included the Committee for Economic Development, the Department of Commerce...
...Aside from these bits of propaganda, Heavenly Days is a thoroughly harmless little comic strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington, and Dr. Gallup's search for America's Absolutely Average Man. Pleasant, corny performers with extremely experienced voices, the radio-famed McGees will doubtless roll up another million and a half dollars or so for RKO (at an outlay of some $450,000). Films such as theirs, fairly popular in big cities and beloved in the provinces, are aptly known as topnotch bread-&-butter pictures...