Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost hear the faint, far whisper of their forgotten songs. Youth, strength, aspirations, struggles, triumphs, despairs, wide winds sweeping, beacons flashing across uncharted depths, faint bugles sounding reveille, far drums beating the long roll, the wail of sirens, the crash of guns, the thud of bombs, the rattle of musketry-the still white crosses...
Black-mustached Group Captain George Ward, 44, a veteran R.A.F. staff officer, was presenting the R.A.F.'s $1,255,280,000 budget for 1952-53. It was his first parliamentary mission, but what he had to say sent R.A.F.-proud Britons into a jittery slow roll. "The House is aware," said Ward, "of the enormous numerical strength of the Soviet Air Force. But it is not only in numbers that we are inadequate. Even more important is the fact . . . that we are in some respects inferior in the performance of our aircraft . . . It is a hard fact that...
John Peter Frank was a curly-haired, dark-eyed baby who seemed perfectly normal at birth and for the first few months of his life in Bloomington. Ind., where his father was teaching law at the state university. True, Petey seemed slower than most babies in trying to roll over and sit up, but his parents thought little of it. One steaming day in Washington, D.C., Petey fainted and was sick for a while; the doctor thought it was only the heat. A second seizure was laid to an ear infection. The third time, a doctor gave the verdict...
Carl Vinson's amendment carried 126-19, but-as Dewey Short had divined-it was more a sign of defeat than of victory. By a roll call of 236-162, the House voted to send the whole U.M.T. bill back to committee, i.e., to bury...
Tokyo announced that Admiral Nomura, the peace-talking Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. at the time of Pearl Harbor, was among those listed to be taken off the political purge roll, provided the occupation authorities approve...