Word: roll
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quick withdrawal. As it has been for so long, the President's position seems firm and fixed between the extremes. He is determined to stand fast. He is, moreover, determined to hold Khe Sanh, for he believes that the loss of the outpost would allow the Communists to roll from the mountains of Laos right down to the South China Sea. Addressing American sailors on the deck of the 60,000-ton aircraft carrier Constellation last week during a tour of U.S. military facilities, he put his feelings into forceful words. "Men may debate and men may dissent...
...regulations strike deep at arcane devices dear to the Senate parliamentarians. Many members often feign forgetfulness about whether they voted aye or nay and interrupt roll calls to ask whether their vote has been recorded and how they voted. This is a time-spinning maneuver, enabling habitual latecomers-notably including New York's Bobby Kennedy and Illinois' Charles Percy-to vote. Henceforth, this maneuver is out. Instead, Senate clerks will make a "slow call" of the roll, which, its proponents insist, will give laggards at least 15 minutes to reach the chamber...
...fact is clear as a result of the challenge posed by the Tet offensive," General Westmoreland told the Associated Press Sunday: "The time has come for debating to end, for everyone to close ranks, roll up their (sic) sleeves and get on with the job." The General's decision to revive the venerable, but by no means honorable, American tradition of the Bloody shirt is sensationally illtimed...
...Security Council's draft directive puts almost all college seniors and most first-year graduate students at the head of the line for next year's draft calls. No one here next year will be able to believe President Johnson's reassurance that United States society can continue to roll along in the face of the Vietnam debacle. Three-quarters of the second-year law class will go off to war, and there will be similar depletion in all other University graduate schools...
...bridges down, telephones dead and all other kinds of communications clogged, the South Vietnamese are still painfully piecing together the extent of their human and material losses. At least 3,000 civilians were killed and another 350,000 made homeless, adding to the country's already overburdened refugee rolls. Hospitals overflowed with some 7,000 wounded civilians. Food was in short supply in some places, private businesses and public services at a standstill in others. The roll of cities and towns nearly literally leveled to the ground reads like a grim Vietnamese gazetteer...