Word: roll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alan Freed goes on trial pretty soon, charged with inciting a riot at a Boston rock 'n roll show last spring, and when he walks into that court-room all America will be on trial with...
...visit of rock 'n roll artists under the wing of Mr. Freed was one of the greatest nights of all spring, even if the law doesn't think so. Mr. Freed defends clean thoughts and forthright action, is a champion of keen teens throughout the land, and knows what is good for today's youth and what is not. Just where do you think those kids would have been if they hadn't been rocking at Mr. Freed's show? Out hanging on street corners thinking unclean thoughts, etc., that's where...
That evening Rockefeller sat with his brothers in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, watched the public's verdict roll up a smashing 450,000-plus victory. Rockefeller captured upstate Buffalo by 5,500 votes where Harriman had won by 10,600 in 1954, carried Schenectady County by a bigger margin than Tom Dewey in 1950, increased G.O.P. margins in suburban Westchester and Nassau Counties, held Harriman below 60% of the vote in New York City by scoring heavily with liberals, independents, minority groups. Rockefeller carried in with him the Republican state ticket, led by upstate Congressman Kenneth Keating, elected...
...cliff dwellers still roll out their gaily colored futons (quilts) at night, and drape them over balcony railings to air during the day. But the traditional toko-noma, the alcove in which the family displayed its scrolls and flower arrangements, has given way to built-in cupboards. Central heating has taken the place of the hibachi (brazier) and of the kotatsu, the hole in the floor filled with hot coals to keep the family feet warm...
What had gone wrong? Komsomolskaya Pravda blamed it on "a passion for foreign clothes, foreign dances and foreign names," which led to the further deviation of listening to rock 'n' roll and the Voice of America. From such evil habits it was only a step further to hard drinking and absenteeism. Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted with horror a passage from Kostiuk's diary: "I don't understand how one can find any satisfaction in work. Study is also useless." In retrospect, the newspaper blamed the plant collective for failing to apply "corrective measures" in time...