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Word: roll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls (ages 3½, 2½, and ½ raise continual riot. A yellow parrot named Jethroe screeches, whistles and squawks "There's a girl" whenever Mamma glides past in skintight velvet pants. A hefty brother-in-law lounges around listening to a recording of rock 'n' roll music that he composes himself. Through it all, Johnny Cash, head of the household, relaxes in pointy Italian-leather loafers, and practices a fast draw with his Colt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Write Is Wrong | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...getting the best of everyone, 24 hours a day, Rothstein still felt unwanted, unloved and even uncertain. But the cure for this was in his billfold: "Whenever he had self-doubts he could count his money." To facilitate this, Rothstein carried all his bills in his pocket-until the roll grew so fat from graft and gambling that he had to put some of it in the bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dedicated Gangster | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...cheered to the echo. But when we take over the government, my troubles will begin. It will be but a matter of time before I find that I am unable to deliver the goods I may have promised out of political expediency. Then the head of Julius Nyerere will roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: SIX LEADERS OF BLACK AFRICA | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Owlish Cellist Pablo Casals, 81, ventured a hopeful thought on a species of U.S.-bred cacophony scarcely ever ventured on his mellow instrument: "Rock 'n' roll is a disease that shall pass away as quickly as it was created. It is a sad thing for your country. It is nothing, nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...America smokes thinking men's cigarettes, it sings feeling men's songs. The Rock 'n' Roll Romantic today beats out the worries of the age; he synthesizes the intellectual (Charlie Brown), the successful (Elvis Presley), and all other concerns into a libidinal lyric. One big bopper says more about America than Max Lerner; and the CRIMSON, never unpercipient of current social and intellectual trends presents its quasi-annual song round-up. Harvard if not singing should keep swinging...

Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

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