Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...licked. He bided his time while the powerful veterans' organization lobbyists, who feared that the firing power would upset the veterans' preference features of the civil-service law, went to work. Seventy-two minutes after the first vote, Rooney maneuvered another vote, this time by roll call. Result: the House reversed itself, took the firing power out of the bill, 181-168, and sent it along to the Senate, where Republican leaders will try to get the power back...
...smeared with accusations of "war mongering, spying and sabotage." Children who were members have been expelled from school, and clerical advisers of the groups thrown into jail. In a Saxony boarding school, one girl in a class of 23 refused to sign a statement denying membership; next morning at roll call her teacher reported to the headmaster: "Twenty-two students and one saboteur...
...occasions when even the Smiths are called upon to display their gambler's spirit. A few years ago a professional gambler lost $180,000 at Harold's in 32 straight hours of crapshooting. As he was leaving, the gambler challenged Harold Smith to a double-or-nothing roll, with one die apiece and high man the winner. Smith accepted. He rolled an ace. The gambler made his roll-another ace. Smith rolled again-a three. The gambler rolled a four-and walked out with the $180,000 he had lost at the dice table. The Smiths took...
...time guards threw open the White House gates at 9 a.m.. a crowd of 500 was waiting to get in. President Eisenhower had revived a local tradition, the Easter Monday egg roll on the White House lawn, started in 1877 by Rutherford Hayes and abandoned twelve years ago by Franklin Roosevelt. The Eisenhowers really didn't know what to expect, but the gardeners began a week in advance preparing for the worst, installing storm fences, comfort stations and drinking fountains...
...seemed to know what to do at an egg roll. Some bowled eggs across the greensward; others tossed them high in the air with occasional disasters. The aid station was busy with minor cuts and bruises. Most people just pressed against the fence, peering eagerly at the south portico. By noon, the grounds were a dreadful mass of mashed eggs, gooey chocolate marshmallow, melting jelly beans and picnic midden. Most unexpected casualty: a press photographer lost both shoes...