Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Officially, police announced 9 dead, 30 wounded, but the actual death roll was considerably higher. Visitors to the location reported several dozen fresh graves dug in the location cemetery. Government officials pressed the cops to soft-pedal reports of Negro casualties. "Think what [Indian Delegate] Madame Pandit would do with the native death toll at the U.N.," Justice Minister Charles Swart explained...
...them. The outrageous rhymester's lines are deft and often delightful, particularly when coupling words like respectable and "Toulouse Lantrectable." Nash's lyrics are set to pleasant music, though none of the tunes is likely to stick with you as far as the subway station. One which might is Roll Along Sadie, a lively number which suggests that Anita Loss might have been kinder to Sadie Thompson than Somerset Maugham...
...week's end Ike had managed to get in a few rounds of golf (see below), but that "no visitors" rule had gone by the board, and Republican politicos were already beginning to roll into Augusta to confer with the general. These conferences, together with plans for the White House meeting and the Korea trip which is to follow it, promised to make Ike's vacation more taxing than the average American's work week...
...back?" Cannon keeps his pockets stuffed with notes for his "Nobody Asked Me, But . . ." columns. Samples: "Nothing improves an actress' diction more than marrying money." "I'm no philanthropist, but I always get the check when I dine with a guy who protects his bank roll with an ornate money clip." "If you have to make notes in a telephone booth, chances are the lights won't work...
Standing on the road near one end of San Salvador's Ilopango Airport one afternoon last week, Felix Lara, 24, an Indian laborer, watched a Pan American Airways Constellation taxi out for the take-off to Honduras. Just as the plane started to roll, Felix vaulted the airport fence, leaped up on the axle housing of the right main landing wheel, and flung his arms around the fat supporting strut...