Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from the fumbling execution, the original decision to let the Langlie amendment pass and instead to fight for the Louisiana seven was fantastic. The Langlie amendment was a serious blow to Taft's numerical strength, and might have been worth the risk of a roll call. But in no sense were the votes of seven delegates on one issue worth such a risk...
Before another humiliating roll-call defeat could be inflicted on them, Taftmen threw in the towel, proposed that the convention unanimously seat the Eisenhower Texas delegation. With that vote, all hope of regaining the offensive went out of the Taft forces, although they still held together with a tenacity and defensive loyalty almost unparalleled in beaten groups at U.S. national conventions...
...general staff of the world revolution." Of these 18, two have been executed, two excommunicated; two have risen higher in favor, at least three, and possibly five, have been purged. Moreover, the leadership of every one of the six principal satellites in the Cominform has been shaken up. The roll call...
...felt with ordinary jet engines. Afterburner noise makes them more intense and adds some effects of its own. Men exposed to an afterburner's sound field for the first time are overwhelmed by terror and panic. They want desperately to escape, or as one victim put it, "to roll yourself into as small a ball as possible...
...addition. He picked up two copies of a fat book (The World's Greatest Doers- The Story of Lions, by Robert Casey and W.A.S. Douglas), hollowed them out, stuck them together, and fitted a Contax camera into them. With this contraption, Miller snapped most of a roll of film before the camera was spotted by a sergeant-at-arms. Cameraman Miller was waved...