Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt's taunts (TIME, Feb. 7), had its mind made up to smite the President. Only the day before it had refused to stand up and be counted on the soldiers' vote bill. Now, as Republican Leader Joe Martin saw that he had the votes, a roll call was ordered, and the House howled down the Administration-backed Worley bill, 224-to-168. Then it passed the Eastland-Rankin state-ballot measure...
Massachusetts' slick, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. failed to answer roll call in the Senate one day last week. Colleagues soon learned why. The reading clerk droned out a letter from the Senator: he was resigning to go back into the Army. Reporters hotfooted it around to the Senator's office, learned from a secretary that Lodge was already in his major's uniform, already off somewhere on duty...
Victory in Estonia-a victory in sight, but yet to be won-would enable the Russians to: 1) roll back the entire German Baltic Front across the flat, creek-laced terrain of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; 2) outflank the German front in White Russia; 3) raid Germany's supply routes across the Baltic, depriving the German munitions industry of Swedish ore and virtually isolating Finland...
...trick uses the standard platter-like German Teller mine. The thick disc, with almost 12 lb. of TNT, is buried extra deep in roads which rut quickly. The first few trucks roll over without disturbing the round, flat trigger called "the spider." When the rut deepens, usually after the road is considered safe, the next truck sets off the mine...
Well, the average guy has enough of an open mind to perk up a little, if only in hopes that someone will sing the fascinatingly-titled "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll." (Rest assured, though--no vocals, no rhumbas, no waltzes, not even "I Got Rhythm"). After all, anybody can turn on the radio and get "Mares Eat Oats" or "Sunday, Monday and Always." Or you can dance to "Paper Doll" from juke joint to $1.50 cover without any trouble (aside from $.90 for a week highball). But it's the hardest thing...