Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...craft, the LSM may become even more famous than the LST. The LSM has a 34-ft. beam, is some 100 ft. shorter than the 328-ft. LST. As in her bigger sister, two doors in her broad nose open and a ramp drops down for her cargo to roll ashore...
...factors aiding P.A.C.'s rise to power seemed to be that thousands of regions, each with its own semi-autonomous boss, who works up his local list of Congressional heads to roll. Many a Republican will have P.A.C. support, many a Democrat will be fought. (Tests: general labor record, support of international cooperation...
...Education, of Course." Phil Murray, speaking last week to the clothing workers, set the 1944 goal of the Political Action Committee, and gingerly phrased its methods: "If you roll up your sleeves, get Roosevelt to run, and fight in every precinct to get him elected-I mean by processes of education, of course-then there will be no doubt of the result...
...rejecting Holman and electing Morse, many Oregonians were convinced that they had rendered a double public service. Holman, big of girth, white of hair, loose of lip, distinguished himself in Congress mainly by his absence from roll-calls (he was absent when Congress declared war, and missed 148 out of 239 roll-calls in seven months of 1942). But he managed to be present enough to distinguish himself in the making of intemperate attacks. These he delivered in a gravely falsetto voice which the Oregon Journal likes to call "a high tenor of protest. " High spot of the campaign came...
...same deal, Pulliam got the other Shaffer paper, the Muncie Star (circ. 24,821). Indianapolis buzzed anew with reports that Marshall Field's bank roll was behind Publisher Pulliam. It was not. Big, beaming Smith Davis, Cleveland newspaper broker, had arranged and so hidden the deal that no one had seriously suspected Pulliam...