Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published in Britain-the International Herald Tribune, edited and printed in Paris. The offending column, written by Flora Lewis, appeared the same day as an unrelated wire service story reporting that Wilson had won an out-of-court settlement from The Move, a rock 'n' roll group. To promote a new record, the group had circulated a postcard showing Wilson nude on a bed with a woman labeled "Harold's very personal secretary." Wilson won an apology plus more than $30,000, which he donated to charity...
...play consists of frightening, cruel vignettes. A woman six months pregnant is booted in the stomach and loses her baby. An Angolan Negro loses his passbook, hence his job, hence his life. The pitiable wages of native contract laborers are recorded, along with a drum-roll-call of industrial corporations that draw profits from the mines of Rhodesia, Katanga and South Africa...
...success with "Pain In My Heart." Perhaps his greatest hit was "I've Been Loving You Too Long," released in the summer of 1965. Of all his songs, there have been really only two which were promoted in such a way that they were played on white rock and roll stations. They were his own version of his "Satisfaction," and his last hit, "Try a Little Tenderness." Those who did not know he had written it some-times thought "Satisfaction" was the only song he recorded which suggests a capitulation to mass popularity. But his version was really so good...
...change the government." Soglo blithely ignored his officers' pleas for talks to settle the general strike. The Dahoman general staff thereupon ordered the army's so-called force de frappe, which consists of six old armored cars and 200 men in World War I helmets, to roll toward Cotonou...
...schools in the Boston area* an nounced the creation of the Boston Theological Institute, which in effect is nothing less than an interdenominational theological university. Although the seven member schools will maintain their individual identity, students at any one of the seminaries will be able to en roll in courses at the other six. By pooling their resources, the institutions, which have a total enrollment of 1,500, will be able to offer students a joint catalogue containing 918 courses, the services of 255 teachers, and library facilities totaling 750,000 volumes...