Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twin Perils. In the north, Armenian General Ivan Bagramian was hacking away methodically at the Vitebsk-Mogilev line (see map, p, 27). The great German stronghold of Vitebsk was engulfed. Orsha was in danger. And at any hour, the four huge Red Armies idling in the north might roll west, crush the thinly spread forces of Field Marshals von Kluge" and von Küchler, pour into old Poland, the Baltic States...
...refers-the classroom, the main street by day and by night, the church, the school bus, the soldier's home (a farm) and his parents, the war work of various auxiliaries, a Friday night dance at the High School, a parade which culminates in the dedication of Roll of Honor, in tribute to the young men who are away...
...synagogue's honor roll was defaced with "Jew Boys" scrawled among the names of servicemen. One rabbi had his shingle torn down, his window stoned, his beard yanked by hoodlums as he walked on the street. Another reported that children sneaked into his open synagogue, dumped the prayer books in toilets...
...bale of tunes for Broadway producers. He was one of the first jazzmen to go on the air. ("In those days we never got paid-just pats on the back and promises. . . .") By the end of the '203, Jimmie's health had more holes than a piano roll, and he was ready for what he calls his "stormy days...
...soldier, standing ankle-deep in Chungking mud, lit a cigaret with a Chinese dollar and laughed. A patient child cut a doll from currency and its mother said nothing. A ricksha coolie, squatting beside the road, thumbed through a fat roll again & again. He waved away a customer, saying that he had enough...