Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general in the White House, in agonizingly difficult personal decisions, quite literally kept the U.S. out of a shooting war. In the final weeks before the fall of Dienbienphu and, again, when an invasion of Quemoy Island seemed imminent, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that the U.S. roll back Communist pressure by bombing every worthwhile military target in Red China. Ike said no, and the course of U.S. policy was turned into other channels. Last week General Eisenhower was again playing the peacekeeper's role...
...literary world of elves, trolls, pixies and wizards is a victim of technological unemployment. Science fiction, with its flying saucers and its legions of Martian midgetmen, has just about monopolized the literature of fantasy. But two new books roll out the old-fashioned magic carpet. The Visionary Novels of George Macdonald (containing two stories, Lilith and Phantasies) are by a 19th century Scottish Presbyterian who deserted the pulpit for the pen, and The Fellowship of the Ring is by J.R.R. Tolkien, a pipe-smoking, 20th century Oxford philology professor. Both books are fashioned as fairy tales for adults, and fueled...
...YORK DAILY NEWS: The Republicans didn't begin to put in their best licks till about three weeks ago, with President Eisenhower having to be prodded to roll up his sleeves. If he had slugged sooner, oftener and harder, his party would have kept and strengthened its control of Congress...
Thankful for the fortunate placing of Armistice Day in the middle of November Hours, members of the 14 Plympton St. institution plan to take advantage of the holiday by stopping the presses for a day, and repairing to their rooms to sleep. Presses roll again late Thursday in time to print for Friday...
...still 6 to 6 with eight minutes to go in the final quarter, when Damis started to roll up points for the Crimson. He scored first from about 25 yards out on a short pass from Crehore, and then also kicked the point, to give the visitors a 13 to 6 advantage. Three minutes later, with the Crimson again in possession of the ball in Princeton territory, Damis took the ball from Crehore on a Statue of Liberty play and once more carried it over, again adding the extra point...