Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most startling blow to Harvard's small college rivalry came in 1947 when the H.A.A. scheduled a game with a mediocre Virginia University team only to find the following fall it had become the powerhouse of the South. Virginia proceeded to roll up 250 yards rushing to the varsity's 63 and gave the Crimson eleven the second worse trouncing in its history...
...weak, his leadership ability is equally dubious. As the Democratic floor leader in the state House of Representatives, he might have compiled an impressive record with his party. But a majority of the Democratic members of the House deserted his leadership a total of 4,766 times on roll call votes during the past two years. And it was only after several other men refused to run that Murphy became a candidate for Governor...
Fragile Fox bangs through three acts, tossing at the audience a large variety of theatrical explosives. Blood is shed, broken bones are set, orders are defied, prisoners are shot, characters swear and curse, reel forward and roll backward. The characters themselves range from the comic to the psychopathic, the believable to the incredible; the incidents sometimes recall the war, rather oftener recall other war plays...
...Just as the Pax Britannica made an end to tribal warfare in Africa, so our world could roll up its Iron Curtain and use it for scrap . . . This might not be so bad. But we would have been 'discovered' and colonized...
...morning he landed in Sicily in July 1943, General George Patton climbed a Rangers' observation post and watched a column of German tanks roll down on his invasion beachhead. A young naval ensign with a walkie-talkie said: "Can I help you, sir?" "Sure," roared the general, "if you can connect with your [profanity deleted] Navy, tell them for [profanity's] sake to drop some shellfire on that road." Somehow the ensign raised the cruiser Boise, which devastated the tanks with 38 rounds of 6-in. shells. "General Patton's conversion to the value of naval-gunfire...