Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until 3:10 a.m. did the roll call for final passage begin. By then, more than $500 million had already been chopped away from the Administration's bill. At 3:33 a.m., the legislation squeezed by on a vote of 202 to 194. As close as the vote was, opposition leaders had no intention of defeating the foreign aid bill entirely. Their aim was to scare the Administration, and that they did most successfully...
...Kiss the Mud." When persuasion failed, pressure replaced it. "Get up, hit it, up, down, roll over, crawl in circles, up, down, faster, talk, talk, talk." The captives were lined up in front of a row of odoriferous barrels partly filled with slime and crawling with spiders. "Get in headfirst, you dumb sickies," they were told. "Kiss the mud. Now do push...
...defiance is most common in the South. North Carolina's Charles F. Car roll, state superintendent of public instruction, says flatly: "We've had these practices since the beginning-I don't know of any school that has ruled out prayers and Bible reading." Mississippi Superintendent of Education J. M. Tubb says: "The ruling hasn't really changed things much." Some Mississippi schools have students recite the Lord's Prayer, others let students propose their own. In the Greenville schools, a verse of Scripture is read over loudspeaker systems each...
...over Rite-Kit would die." So how about Christmas? It should survive eternally. Katz therefore took his earnings from Rite-Kit, set up Paper-craft. He was willing to innovate; among other things, he helped pioneer the change from flat-folded Christmas wrappings to those sold by the roll. His stock in trade is the traditional design -Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, Donner, Blitzen, etc. This has helped him to become the main supplier of Christmas wrapping paper to tradition-minded giants like Sears, Roebuck...
...sport is marvelously complex and terribly competitive," says Bill Parks. "It's a great challenge because there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance out of it. Even then, it's a roll of the dice." And while the dice are in the air, anyone-for one brief Mittyesque moment-can be Bus Mosbacher, sailing out of Newport for the America...