Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the time came to hand out the $50,000 first prize, it was won by a simple roll with the fanciest name of all-the "water-rising nut twist." The winner: Mrs. Ralph E. Smafield, 32, wife of a Detroit electrical engineer. The recipe, as expected, was a family treasure, which Mrs. Smafield got from her mother who "got it 25 years ago from a friend in Wisconsin." Pillsbury labeled it top secret, saved it for publication later...
Then two Council members tried to destroy the quorum and hence invalidate any more Council action by walking out of the room. A quorum remained, however, and a roll call vote favored the adoption of the rule by a vote...
...violent storm lashed British Columbia a fortnight ago, the 101-ton tug George McGregor was returning without tow from Bamberton to Victoria. Rounding Trial Island, near Victoria, she caught the full blast of the gale and the pull of the riptide. The combination was too much. She began to roll, then capsized and sank...
...yards, scored three touchdowns. After his third score it took all of Notre Dame's All-America power to grind out one more Irish touchdown and go ahead, 27-20. Even then, in the last minutes of the game, Coach Matty Bell's men began to roll downfield again in a 67-yd. drive that was halted only on the Irish 4-yd. line...
...association charged an average weekly rate of $3.95. Class wars still occurred and even bloody fights among the colored waiters, but the food was considerably better than Harvard Hall's. Menus offered roast rib of beef, braised pork tenderloin with robert sauce, "Creme d'Menthe Punch", and "Jelly Roll Pudding, Wine Sauce...