Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Decision Week. In fact, a compromise had seemed imminent until the President's news-conference tirade. "The President can propose," he said, "but the Congress must dispose. I proposed a budget. If they don't like that budget, then stand up like men and answer the roll call and cut what they think ought to be cut. Then the President will exercise his responsibility of approving it or rejecting it and vetoing it." He went so far as to accuse conservatives of holding up the tax bill so that they could "blackmail" him into approving cuts-almost...
...square with the inevitable white courthouse and statute of a Civil War hero was Presley Franklin, the first Negro to integrate the eleventh grade at Marks' white high school. Slim and small for his age, he spoke quietly describing his school year. "They would call me 'walkin' talkin' tootsie-roll,' 'burrhead', and other things like that. They used to throw crayons and chalk at me during class discussion and say 'we're going to kill that nigger'. Miss Martin, one of my teachers, let them throw at me during class. Next year I am going to take up a policy...
Emerging from his weekly Cabinet meeting in Algiers' Palais du Gouvernement, Algerian President Houari Bou-mediene climbed into his black Citroën to go to lunch with Minister of State Rabat Bitat. As the car began to roll down the Esplanade de 1'Afrique, a child stepped forward with a petition...
...harmonies were derived from Europe; actually, he says, all of its musical elements came largely from Africa. Here and there he explores an intriguing historical byway, as in his study of the influence that New Orleans opera performances had on the ragtime and blues of Creole Composer Jelly Roll Morton. And he even unearths an occasional gee-whiz oddity, such as the fact that one of the first authentic white Dixieland bands was led by Jimmy Durante...
After a slow start, captain Jose Ganzales is finally beginning to roll. Opponents fall like flies, when the husky senior has his booming serve and overhead under control. Gonzales has also teamed with hockey star Kent Parrot to form a crack doubles combination. With Levin on the sidelines, they will occasionally get a shot at the number one spot...