Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Americans praised British staff workers, but complained about British caution. They wanted more "hell-for-leather" lunges, George Patton-style. In the event of a Red attack on Germany, argued the British, the NATO troops should roll with the punch, save themselves for the counterattack. One major omission: "Counterthrust" featured no breakthrough and infiltration by "Redland"-favorite Red tactics...
Next day Dewey saw Scott for a long talk, then flew back to New York. Clearly, the campaign for Ike was beginning to roll, and Dewey was pushing it hard...
...plane hurtled above the crowd upside down, started to roll over and up. Then with an eerie roar it ripped downward, crushed spectators, smashed six cars, including an ambulance. In an instant, the happy crowd was turned into a panic-stricken, blood-spattered mass of humanity screaming in terror and pain...
...sharply observant eye once again brought history to life. It was finicky about detail, looking over the shoulder of Czechoslovakia's Gertruda Sekaninova as she jotted down notes; absorbedly watching Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida nimbly unroll the manuscript of his speech with one hand and roll it up with the other; turning away from a repetitious speaker to look at the stony-faced Russians, at an Anglo-American huddle...
...drum-roll effect in Haydn's Symphony No. 103 ("The Drum Roll") was not Haydn's idea, but the work of a later innovator, identity unknown...