Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business than any others except those in Sweden. The U.S. Air Forces and the R. A. F. have battered the Paris and Schweinfurt plants heavily, may have put them out of production. Result: Germany now relies on SKF in Sweden for more than half of the bearings needed to roll the Wehrmacht's heavy arms, keep the Luftwaffe aloft. The U.S. wants that supply choked...
...Fifty-five-year-old Author Boyd (Drums, Roll River, Bitter Creek, etc.) died last Feb. 25, of a heart attack, at Princeton, N.J., where he was pursuing his war work. The Free Company (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), which he founded, strove to counter the enemy's propaganda...
...Guerre. In Fort Dix, N.J., a sergeant was calling the roll, reached the name of Private Theodore Frank Przywieczerski. The sergeant whistled. Private P. answered promptly, has been Private Whistle ever since...
...years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Georgia's wavy-haired Paul Brown prided himself on being the Congressman who "never missed a roll call." One day this week a colleague rose to explain the strangely empty Brown seat: Lieut. Robert Thomas Brown, 24, Representative Brown's submarine-officer son, had just been reported "missing in action...
...patriots resentful of profiteers and collaborators. More frequently it is the sign of increasing lawlessness, a growth of gangsterism. Women "defy restrictions with monumental hats that take six meters of fabric to erect. . . . They fight to order 5,000 franc hats at the leading Parisian modistes and roll around the town in horse cabs at 500 francs a course, lest they be mobbed by indignant crowds in the subway. In poorer quarters, eyes have the wolfish glare that must have reflected the guillotine under that other terror...