Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearest proof of inflation's hydra like quality has appeared during the last few months. When the steel dispute rolled into Washington, anyone could see that a dozen knotty issues would roll in with it, all tangled up like the parts of some inscrutable hieroglyph. That no one seems able to disentangle these issues and set them right is not all the fault of Truman's sword-play, for one of inflation's perversities, it seems, is to grow more impregnable with every attack...
...echoes from the battlefield no more ring out. The faint, far whisper of forgotten songs no longer floats through the air. Youth . . . strength . . . aspirations . . . struggles . . . triumphs . . . despairs . . . wide winds sweeping . . . beacons flashing across uncharted depths . . . movements . . . vividness . . . radiance . . . shadows . . . faint bugles sounding reveille ... far drums beating the long roll ... the crash of guns . . . the rattle of musketry ... the still white crosses . . . And now we are met to remember...
...Planes. Their teamwork got results. When Straight began his pruning, BOAC had an incredible break-even "load factor" of 115%, would have been losing money even if every seat on every flight was filled. Gradually, Straight and Sir Miles got this down to its present 65%. Profits began to roll in even before Britain boosted airmail rates last August...
...Tignards watched the bulldozers roll into their valley, heard the dynamite blasts, and declared a day of mourning. Some of them tried to drive the invaders out by wrecking their machines and burning their toolsheds. Others met the future more practically; they clamored for more compensation money than the thousand million francs the company offered them. For five years temporary injunctions came and went like winter snows. All the while the concrete wall at the valley's end rose higher and higher...
...plane trip four years ago, a seatmate told John Burton Tigrett about a new toy. It was simply a roll of paper on a stick. With a flick of the wrist the paper coil would shoot five feet into the air and snap back into position. Tigrett, an easygoing Southerner who had long made a hobby of buying up patents, tracked down the inventor, bought his patent for $100 plus royalties, and started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual...