Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resigned the party job in January, and Dubček was elected to replace him. Even then, Novotný did not completely give up. His allies in the Defense and Interior ministries put to gether desperate plans for a coup, and at least one tank battalion was ready to roll into Prague on Novotný's behalf. But the coup fizzled when other commanders demanded written orders from the Central Committee before moving. (Major General Jan Sejna, then one of the architects of the coup, defected to the U.S.) By the time the party leaders gathered in Prague...
...first light of dawn, troop-car rying Israeli helicopters lifted off their pads near Jericho and Sodom and raced eastward deep into neighboring Jordan. As soon as they had landed their in fantrymen in blocking positions, the main Israeli invasion force began to roll. North of the Dead Sea, Centurion tanks laden with helmeted paratroopers and halftrack personnel carriers trun dling infantrymen rumbled across the Allenby and Damiya bridges onto Jordan's East Bank. A second task force punched across the border south of the Dead Sea. Israeli artillery laid down a barrage that walked just ahead...
...gradual zombification of Morley as physical debility betokens his psychic decay. He develops a limp, then cannot stand up at all as his arms and legs go rigid. Sitting mutely in a chair as if immobilized by a stroke, he seems to live only with his eyes, which roll in a fine frenzy as his latest financial coups are related to him by the omnipresent Spaatz. The time inevitably comes to get divorced for tax purposes, and then Morley kills himself-for tax purposes. In a final scene of immense sadness and gravity, Mostel performs the rite of hara-kiri...
Michael Oldfather, one of the McCarthy leaders in Nebraska, said, "The New Hampshire primary is what really broke the log jam in Nebraska. Since March 12, things have really begun to roll...
...those whose idea of an oldie is pre-rock 'n' roll, there is still hope. A record called Love Is Blue has become a hit without any of the ingredients that pop musicians have considered necessary for the past few years: the juggernaut beat, the vocalisthenic performance, and the strain of novelty...