Word: roll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band hammered out Latin tunes with a fierce beat. With each bulletin feeding new totals into Quinn's narrow plurality, came still more excitement. A stocky Portuguese-Hawaiian booster gaily swung the crowd into a chorus of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, and the band broke out into Roll Out the Barrel. And then it was official: Quinn was elected (by 4,000 votes) over the favorite. Democrat John A. (for Anthony) Burns, 50. territorial delegate to Congress, onetime Honolulu cop. one of the architects of Hawaii's Democratic Party, a leader in the long battle for statehood...
...charges: kidnaping, illegal possession of firearms, assault, violation of child-labor laws, failure to register the manufacture and sale of a poisonous product, and income tax evasion. Said he: "I am a freethinker. What can the outside world offer my family? Prostitution, crime, drunkenness, rock 'n' roll and the blasted television. No senor, none of that for my family...
Cutting the Roll. Once in the swim, Yamanaka set out to compete in earnest. By the 1956 Olympic Games, he was a 17-year-old novice who rolled like a canoe in white water, because his left arm curved too far under his body. But he still had enough raw power to place second in the 400 meters (4:30.4) and second in the 1,500 meters...
...since the 19305. when Japan was the world's top swimming power, had Japanese coaches seen such a likely prospect. They corrected his body roll and built him into an iron-hard (5 ft. 6½ in., 150 lbs.) competitor...
...runs classes in three shifts a day. Its urban colleges are ill-lighted and have no recreational facilities. The only gathering places are coffee shops and tea shops, where Marx-hipped hotheads often dominate the conversation. Classes are so perfunctory and lectures so mechanical that many students leave after roll call; a friend can always supply notes and, more important, provide names and pages of books the professor referred...