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Word: rolled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Babies must crawl before they can walk, but they all can roll off their backs before they can crawl. I believe Joyce Gary is all and more you say he is, but in the case of that apple-headed infant of his, his bright eye erred. Could he have had in mind a baby turtle, tortoise or even cockroach? They have that trouble. Not babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Leverett's football squad took a clear lead of second place in the House league by defeating Adams yesterday 13 to 7. Both its touchdowns were scored in the last three minutes. Eliot continued to roll over all opposition, blanking Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunnies Top Adams, 13-7; Eliot, Dudley, Dunster Win | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

Another of the skeletons in Lodge's closet is his own record of absenteeism--a record he has excused by pleading that he "had himself recorded" most of the time. But this should not obscure the fact that, for example, he was absent from 98 out of 129 Senate roll calls in 1952--the second worse absentee record of any Republican Senator. Nor should it excuse the fact that Lodge was absent from 45 out of 46 roll call votes on price control during 1951 and 1952. Nor the fact that he was absent from the Senate floor when President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LODGE AND LANDIS | 10/28/1952 | See Source »

...best in the Senate, Kennedy's is undeniably the worst in the House. Kennedy has maintained an average absentee record of 29% over the last six years, and in 1951-52 (with the aid of a malaria attack, admittedly) he was absent in well over 40% of the roll calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lodge & Landis | 10/28/1952 | See Source »

...much as the barracks and the tents. Furthermore, his interest in the battles is tightly linked with his interest in the cause for which they were (or were not) fought. His war is simultaneously against Hitler and against "a public quite indifferent to those trains of locked vans . . . rolling East and West from Poland and the Baltic, that were to roll on year after year bearing their innocent loads to ghastly unknown destinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War Revisited | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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