Word: roll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newcomers name their craft for women (Miss Sal, Lulu, Shady Lady), men (Jim Jam, Little Bub, Crafty Chris), in memeriam (Last Cent, Mama's Mink, Overtime), music (Rock 'n' Roll, Intermezzo), the sea (Blue Water, Sea Legs); little boats get little names (Yap Yap, Pixie); big ones get big names (Delphine, Trident, Chanticleer); and many are just hopefully witty (Tireless, Tubeless, Yacht-Ta-Ta). They doll up their boats with color TV sets, love to rig up the latest mariner's aids-radar, sounding devices, ship's-bell clocks, ship-to-shore telephones (more than...
...seems, however, that several Councilors view the present situation as a general problem, not only a Harvard one. Councilor Christopher A. Iannella said last night that "I am not opposed to giving institutions property, but I am opposed to their taking the best land off the tax roll." He said that Foley's measure was aimed mainly at other colleges, and the sale to the University probably would be completed...
...International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union, the International Photo-Engravers' Union and the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders. Long and powerfully entrenched, the printing-craft unions have brought the make-work science of featherbedding to a level that is the envy of organized labor. Modern presses can roll at 60,000 papers an hour, but at shift-change time, crews frequently cut speed to a few thousand-to run over into overtime. Such stunts can double a pressman's pay, bring it to $15,000 a year...
ROCK 'N' ROLL...
...They think I'll be good for recruiting," said the flabby, long-haired teenager. "Look what a lift the American Army is getting because Elvis Presley* joined up." Thus, last January, Terence Williams, known as Terry Dene to millions of British rock-'n'-roll addicts, donned an army uniform and set out to do his bit for Blighty. Result for Britain's army: a nuisance, men, a ruddy nuisance...