Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best for scenic photography-was smashed beyond repair. A second of these cameras, tripod and all, went to its doom from the top of Rainbow Falls. But the third more than proved its worth in the Bitterroot Mountains, where the 40° below temperature would have played hob with roll film...
...project was still plagued by delays, and so many obstructive lawsuits that one attorney wryly suggested paving the roadway with law! books and naming it Blackstone Boulevard. No concrete was poured at all for the first four years. Then in late 1953, an army of roadmaking machines began to roll on two ten-hour daily shifts, and the turnpike shot across Ohio at a rate sometimes exceeding one mile...
With this depth of background, Rock n Roll appeals to all groups. Its lyrics sound the outcry of the suffering romantic, "I'm a Mississippi bullfrog sitting on a Harlem dump, so many girls I don't know which way to jump." With equal fervor, Rock n Roll sympathizes with the nihilistic element of the Cambridge community, "I gotta Flip Flop n Fly, and I don't care...
Striking at the core of these basic problems, Rock n Roll has won the approval of the nation's top recording stars. Perry Como, Georgia Gibbs, and Eddie Fisher have Rocked n Rolled, and sold records. But "the big beat" has brought with it many new vocal performers. Most are from the South, like Nappy Brown, Earl Bostick, and Chuck Berry, whose recording of Maybelline now leads the hit parade. Many have gotten their start in the Amateur Shows at Harlem's New Apollo Theatre, the nation's Rock n Roll center...
Like all successes, Rock n Roll, has had imitations. Wishing to capitalize on its great success, certain musicians have exploited Rock n roll to promote new types of music. so the first popular Cha-Cha was titled Rockin; the Cha-Cha. for the future, however, Rock n Roll devotees have no qualms. The tourists who spread Rock n Roll through France this summer, have, on returning, given local Rock n roll a French touch with new songs like Ay La Bah. With the influx of such new ideas, says Boston disc jockey Stan Richards, "Rock n Roll...