Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roll Out the Barrel. Near Helena, Mont., Carl Case's truck, full of beer, stalled on a mountain grade, rolled back ward, right into a picnic, overturned and tossed out Oase, who stayed...
...shared the job of outflanking Catania, the eastern anchor of the German line. They slugged a path across the terraced hills. They tried their bayonets and lungs in vicious charges through vineyards and lemon orchards. They helped the British into Regalbuto and Centuripe. From that high ground they could roll up the whole German line on Mt. Etna's western slope. General Montgomery could now begin the envelopment of Catania, and thereby spare his men a costly frontal assault...
Other Peterson eye-gogglers : making a silver dollar leap from the cushion-top into a hat; putting the balls through a game of leapfrog all over the table; making a ball jump off the table, roll about on the floor, bounce back on the table. Peterson is the performer who has made the fabulous "impossible shot" possible. The cue ball and two object balls are jammed together in the corner jaw. A brilliantly executed force masse puts such heavy "English"* (spinning motion) on the cue ball that it clears a path, spins to the side rail, reverses back...
Rollback. Franklin Roosevelt now concedes that he cannot roll prices back (see p. 21) to last September's levels, as his April "hold-the-line" order contemplated. But his price lieutenants still hope that a new program, plus normal operations of the law of supply & demand as summer vegetables flood in to market, will keep the cost of living within reasonable bounds...
...This was a very interesting piece of byplay, for everyone guessed that while the two labor leaders talked tough on the front steps, to impress their members, they were probably much less belligerent inside, imploring the President to hold prices level, rather than threatening him if he did not roll prices back...