Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joaquin watershed, has two-thirds of the irrigable land and only one-third of the water. The northern part, the Sacramento watershed, gets more rain. It has one-third of the land and two-thirds of the water. So San Joaquin is chronically strapped for water, while floods roll down the Sacramento every spring and go to waste in the Pacific...
...Price." The best case for rollbacks was made by a Republican. Sure, said New York's Irving Ives, for almost five months after passage of the act, the Truman Administration failed "with an incredible lack of courage" to freeze prices, much less roll them back. But the freeze, when it was imposed, said Ives, had left inequities between producers who had voluntarily held their prices down and producers who had calculatingly boosted their prices while they still could...
...harmless-looking sort-he had the severe mouth, high forehead and martyred gaze of a divinity student; he was nearsighted, and wore rimless spectacles. No cop bothered him as he wandered toward the Washington Monument in the national capital one evening last week, with a .38 revolver and a roll of adhesive tape in his pocket. Though it was still light, he ducked, unnoticed, into the front seat of a parked sedan...
Specifically, the veterans charge Prime Minister Malan with violating the constitution as a result of his new franchise bill. This transferred the 50,000 "colored" (i.e., persons of mixed Negro and white blood) voters of Cape Province from the white voting roll to a separate roll. "Natives" (i.e., full-blooded Negroes) had been taken off the general voting roll...
...Frogmen (20th Century-Fox), is a late addition to Hollywood's muster roll of World War II movies, but it turns out to be one of the most absorbing of the lot. The picture turns the trick in spite of a battleworn plot about a tough-minded commander (Richard Widmark), whose overzealous sense of duty alienates his men (Dana Andrews et al.) until the crisis of battle finally brings them together. Its secret weapon: the work of the Navy's underwater demolition teams, the swimmers who spearheaded U.S. amphibious invasions from Sicily to Okinawa...