Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Funsters coupled a fast break with consistent scoring to roll over Eliot, 58-26, for their fourth win in five games, but the Bunnies have won five...
...most popular girl in Argentina?" asks a current Buenos Aires wisecrack. The answer: "Mercedes-Benz" -a humorous salute to the more than 13,000 German busses, trucks and cars that roll through the capital's streets. In Brazil, doctors rely on new German X-ray machines; in Haiti, Bavarian beer is the favorite; in Mexico, German generators whir in new power plants. These signs and portents measure a striking development: exports of goods from Germany to Latin America, at a dead halt only eight years ago, were 2½ times greater by dollar volume in 1954 than...
...Shabbes." In Jerusalem each Friday afternoon, as the sun dips behind the old, whitish buildings and the Sabbath begins with the sound of a horn, black-coated men with beards and side curls scurry through the orthodox Jewish district known as Mea Shearim (Hundred Gates) to roll heavy stones across the entrances to the quarter. Thus they make sure that for the next 24 hours-until the first three stars are visible on Saturday night-there will be no profanation of their self-imposed "ghetto" by "heathen" Jews who do not observe the Sabbath. No one smokes or turns...
Last week in the face of a federal antitrust suit, Eastman's Board Chairman Thomas Hargrave agreed in a consent decree to drop Eastman's pay-in-advance system, which includes the cost of processing in the price of a roll of color film.-Eastman will now sell a 20-exposure roll of 35-mm. Kodachrome for about $1.85, v. the present price of $3.25 including processing. Eastman will charge $1.50 extra to develop the roll, will license independent processors on a royalty basis to use its patents. Eastman also agreed to drop fair-trade pricing...
...plus fours and no breakfast, you know ... a bombastic adolescent provincial bohemian with a thick-knotted artist's tie made out of his sister's scarf-she never knew where it had gone ... a gabbing, ambitious, mock-tough, pretentious young man; and moley, too." Or he can roll all the world's seaside picnics into an impressionistic memory of one boyhood frolic: "August Bank Holiday-a tune on an ice-cream cornet. A slap of sea and a tickle of sand ... A wince and whinny of bathers dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses. A rolling...