Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy and civilian technicians briskly at work, took six hours. Minutes before firing, rocketmen removed the heated blanket draped around the bird to keep electrical relays from freezing up. Then they took cover, while the firing officer waited until the ship was at the right degree of pitch and roll to enable the rocket to get off in straight-up flight. At firing time, Gralla. standing on the unsheltered wing of his bridge to spot possible trouble, was the only man out in the open. Says he: "That's what skippers...
...Actually, the Western peoples seem to have two dominant attitudes. First of all, they wish the Communists would roll up and disappear. Then they hope their allies would also roll up and disappear." Western people regard their relationships with other peoples as a "dismal duty," not a "startling opportunity." This negative attitude is "the projection on a national scale of what we think for ourselves," a desire to be left alone, a belief we can do best by ourselves. "It dates from the nursery. But it doesn't work on the human level, and it won't work...
...almost 70 ft. shorter than the Nautilus-a 31-ft. beam, and a blunt nose that makes her look more like a blimp than a ship. A tall, thin conning tower, which the crew calls a "sail," rises out of her rounded, whalelike back to give roll-stability and carry the forward control planes...
...Ernest Joiner, 47, editor of the weekly Ralls, Texas Banner (circ. 1,175), planted a cigar beneath his mustache, wrapped a grimy printer's apron about his waist and flipped the switch on the old flatbed press. As the first ink-wet copies of the Banner began to roll, it seemed much like the press run of any of thousands of other small-town U.S. papers. It wasn't. If last week's edition ran true to form, Editor Joiner's own column in the Banner would be excerpted or reprinted in full in much larger...
...Bias: "Last week we printed the honor roll for the colored school. A couple of characters gave birth to a two-headed calf, sideways, when they read it. Our opinion is that colored students, with three strikes against them on books, equipment and the facilities for study, are to be commended above a lot of white children we know who can't make an honor roll with the best of instruction and educational facilities. We think effort should be recognized. We think news should be printed. If these two convictions of ours soil the lily-white hands and Christian...