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Word: roll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROCK 'N' ROLL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK 'N1 ROLL: Eager, Gentle, Fury | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...most howling moments of the night occurred during the "illegitimate" folksongs, particularly when Miss Baez belted her way through some rock and roll with a bemused pleasure. Although Bill Wood's sense of humor is somewhat less forceful (a combination Maine farmer and West Virginia home-brewer), it is just about as effective in the long run, which is going some...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Folkways | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

...tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: First Anniversary | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...full of a mysterious yeast, explains how he hit on Fandango Rock as a title. "Once, in a narrow street in Zaragoza, late at night, there were two radios" -one playing "the subtle, introspective, and uncompromising rhythms of a fandango," the other whanging out "a rock-and-roll, simple, outgoing-and uncompromising." Masters hits his moment of truth with this gone lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cain in Spai | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...rock an' roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cain in Spai | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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