Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without these clearances, the bigwigs gloomily predicted that the first cars may not roll out till as late as nine months after V-E day. Added G.M.'s Wilson: Home Front Tsar Jimmy Byrnes must have "misunderstood" the problem when he blithely predicted cars within three months after Germany quits...
...safety of the paratroopers depended on the Second Army's speed. And the Second Army's speed depended in part on the paratroopers seizing bridges so that its tanks and big guns could roll ahead without interruption. The whole was a fine calculation of military risks to gain a foothold across the Rhine. In the first surprise the Second Army pushed to Eindhoven. Thereafter, as often happens in war, the stroke did not go according to plan...
...Stroke, Charlie Loring (190); 7, Peter Roll (172); 6, Dick West (166); 5, John O'Brien, Jr. (210); 4, Marshall Cohan (172); 3, Selden Dockinson (187); 2, David White (160); bow, Charles Rimmer, Jr., (165); cox, Bill Longmaid...
...returns to Cherbourg again by a parallel route. On this express belt some 9,000 trucks roll day & night at 40 miles an hour - at night with headlights ablaze, for speed is necessary and the German air force negligible. Every 30 or 40 miles, maintenance companies are stationed to make quick repairs...
...Stroke, Charlie Loring (190); 7, Peter Roll (172); 6, Dick West (166); 5, John O'Brien, Jr. (210); 4, Marshall Cohan (172); 3, Selden Dickinson (187); 2, David White (160); bow, Charles Rimmer, Jr. (165); cox, Bill Longmaid...