Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are at least two ways of getting rid of judges. One is to take them out and shoot them, as they are reported to do in at least one other country. The other way is more genteel but no less effective. They are kept on the public pay roll, but their votes are canceled...
...this pioneer legislation, which is concerned with the 1938 crop only, proves efficacious, the New Deal hopes to extend it to other staples, make general crop insurance a permanent Government policy (TIME, March 1). Basically a campaign promise of both Democrats and Republicans, it was passed without a roll call, sent to the House...
...building instead of the east portico. Some sentimentalists noted the fact that the marble would hide forever the historic scars that were burned into the sandstone front when British soldiers set fire to the building during the War of 1812, but the bill was passed without a roll call, sent to the House...
...nightfall a silent army of militiamen and parents, digging in the weird glare of floodlights strung above the wreckage, had recovered almost 400 bodies. Over a hastily assembled public address system the death roll was droned out to the waiting crowds of parents, newshawks, curiosity seekers. Over the rutted red clay roads, barred to other traffic, slid a steady line of trucks, bearing bodies to improvised morgues and first-aid stations in New London, Tyler, Overton, Kilgore, Henderson. A hospital about to be dedicated in Tyler was hurriedly opened, soon filled to overflowing. Ether, chloroform, bandages, coffins, everything failed...
...onlookers nervously watched Mr. Peacy precariously gyrate heavenward in damaged harness. Passion Play performances have presented Director Taylor with a number of other headaches, such as the time Pilate (Secretary Ralph R. Pihl of Zion Industries, Inc.) fell asleep onstage; the occasion on which someone forgot to roll the rock from Christ's tomb in the Resurrection scene; the equally painful moment when the seven-foot cloth used to lower Christ from the Cross was missing when it was time for the Descent. Last week's premiere, however, went off well enough, struck an audience...