Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence, Bolivia said, was captured last month when an army patrol discovered the guerrillas' main base on a 2,500-acre farm north of Camiri. Though the guerrillas managed to escape from the raid, they left behind a roll of undeveloped film, a book described as Che's "war diary" and 21 forged passports from seven Latin American countries. The Bolivians found the evidence so impressive that President Rene Barrientos himself showed it off in La Paz, while his foreign minister presented it in Washington, where the Organization of American States was opening a meeting to consider...
Cunning Collages. Rich and secure enough to go on repeating themselves -or to do nothing at all-they have exercised a compulsion for growth, change and experimentation. Messengers from beyond rock 'n' roll, they are creating the most original, expressive and musically interesting sounds being heard in pop music. They are leading an evolution in which the best of current post-rock sounds are becoming something that pop music has never been before: an art form. "Serious musicians" are listening to them and marking their work as a historic departure in the progress of music-any music...
Derivative Mewing. Not so long ago, the pop scene was going nowhere. Rock 'n' roll had catapulted into the bestseller charts in the 1950s on the chugging riffs of Bill Haley and His Comets (Rock Around the Clock) and the rhythmic caterwauling of Elvis Presley. But even they were bleached-out copies of the vibrant, earthy rhythm-and-blues sung in the subculture of Negro music. Until the early 1960s, rock 'n' roll went through a doldrum of derivative mewing by white singers, with only occasional breakthroughs by such Negroes as Ray Charles and Fats Domino...
...hemi-head" racing engine that generated 520 h.p. and burned gasoline at the rate of a gallon every three miles. The car's exhaust system, brakes, ignition and suspension had all been rebuilt at the Petty garage in Level Cross. The interior was stripped to make way for roll bars and a special, high-backed racing seat. Finally, the doors were bolted shut, so that Petty had to wriggle in and out through the glassless driver's window...
...word is derived from the Latin con-glomerare, meaning "to roll together." In geology, a conglomerate is a number of stone fragments heaped together in a mass...