Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is a Mecca for this masculine half of the great deceit it is the Medical Room of Dillon Field House, where three trainers work constantly all afternoon during the football season, putting roll after roll of adhesive on the legs of the football and soccer teams...
Decisive Events. West Germany has won this place at the council table despite the fact that it is still nominally an occupied country, and has yet to arm a single soldier, build a plane or roll out a tank...
Some call letters sound like static (KAGH, KARK, KWAK, WZIP, WROK, WOKY), others like Aztec gods (KIXL, KXJK, KXXX), and a few like New Year's Eve (WOOW, WEEI). For the commercially minded, there are KOIN, KASH and KALE. A rundown of Hawaiian stations has the roll of a Polynesian alphabet (KILA, KONA, KIPA, KULA, KANI), and the palm for redundancy goes to Puerto Rico's'monotonous station WWWW...
...about his being a beau, Grandma points out that "he's 15 years younger than me." The doctor is round in the middle, and, says Grandma, "he wouldn't have such a pot on him if he'd just lay down on the floor and roll over like he did when he was three years old and I first knew...
Then a teller solemnly read the names on the ballots. The cardinals kept score on printed tally sheets. On the third ballot, the decision came. Cardinal Pacelli suddenly hid his deathly pale face in his hands. At the end of the roll, it was evident that only Pacelli had voted against Pacelli. Outside, before the wildly cheering crowd, a cardinal solemnly pronounced the ancient formula: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus papam . . . [I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope...