Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father sent him to a naval prep school in Annapolis. Arthur cut morning classes to cross the Severn and watch a group of the Navy's air pioneers fly their 1912-model crates. He did not realize that he was missing a 9 o'clock roll call until his father wrote a chiding letter about his truancy...
President Ferry thinks that the $20 million which Packard has staked on the new team will pull the company out of its troubles. He hopes to roll out 13,000 cars a month-twice the production rate of the first six months this year-and sell 100,000 new cars by next July...
...shooting was in Asia, and Asia was a long way from Europe. But Western Europe still embodied a frightening truth: if the Russians choose to risk all-out war with the U.S., they can roll through Western Europe like a color guard crossing a parade ground. With Mao's Chinese armies to protect their rear, the Russians could throw the better part of their 175 divisions,* 25,000 tanks and 19,000 warplanes into a sweep to the Atlantic...
...Sunday in Korea; it was still only 3 p.m. Saturday in Washington. Just before a grey dawn came up over the peninsula, North Korea's Communist army started to roll south. Past terraced hills, green with newly transplanted rice, rumbled tanks. In the rain-heavy sky roared an occasional fighter plane. Then the heavy artillery started to boom...
...dance the polka with the Polish girls and join in singing "the old songs" at political rallies. Bush was opposed by starchy Vivien Kellems, a Stonington manufacturer, one of the few Americans who is far enough to the right to be considered patriotic by Westbrook Pegler. Vivien stopped the roll call when it reached 27 for her, 187 for Pres Bush...