Word: roll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HANOVER, N.H., Feb. 11--There was never any question about the outcome of tonight's game here as powerful Dartmouth continued to roll over Ivy League opposition, putting the Crimson to rout, 71 to 50. George Harrington led the varsity in defeat with 14 points...
...victim of an ill-conceived jump turn. Skiing is quickly coming of age as a major U.S. participant sport. Wherever there is snow, thousands are heading for the slopes and skiing's high, heady adventure; from New Hampshire to New Mexico and West Virginia to Washington State, skiers roll up record business for resort operators and equipment sellers. A dedicated band of cultists, skiers seem oblivious of skiing's built-in hazards. Asks one: "Isn't it worth maybe a broken leg every five years?" Typical of skiing's expansion is the fact that...
Though Dutch newspapers greeted the U.S.I.A. statement with blunt disbelief, Saris began having his doubts. Was this or was this not a question of race discrimination? he wired the local N.A.A.C.P. "Positively race discrimination," came the reply. "Thank you," Saris wired back. "We will roll on." A Dutch Communist paper tried to get in on the act too. Snapped Saris: "This is a case between two good neighbors living in the same street. The neighbor on the other side of the street has nothing to do with it. Go to your own neighbor, the Soviet Union, and mind your...
...Russian major (Yul Brynner) who commands a border garrison during the 1956 Hungarian rebellion and the ensuing slaughter. He detains a busload of foreigners who are trying to leave the country, because he suspects that some of them may really be Hungarians. Almost at once, the major starts to roll his ochi chernye at one of the passengers, an Englishwoman (Deborah Kerr), and offers to become her devoted Slav; but soon he discovers to his displeasure that his pretty little anglichanka is in love with another passenger (Jason Robards Jr.). The major, soulful Russian that he is, swirls his sorrows...
...always call on the Democratic whip, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, who, with his 15 assistants, can come up with a quick nose count in 24 hours, a firm figure within a week. (In 1955 the whip count indicated reciprocal trade would win by a single vote on the key roll call; the actual count...