Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dixiecrat filibuster designed to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday." Through most of the session the swinging doors to the chamber banged back & forth with metronomic regularity as the members scurried to answer eight different roll calls. Each swallowed up about 40 minutes...
...hitch in 1924, Godfrey no longer dreamed of the Naval Academy or the priesthood. Eager to elbow himself a place in the bustling business world of the '20s, he brought $2,000 in Navy "winnings" back home to Hasbrouck Heights. But his father had died and the fat roll of bills disappeared in settling family debts. Soon he was in a familiar position-on his uppers in a strange city. The city was Detroit where, desperately answering a blind ad, he found himself a door-to-door salesman of cemetery lots. By drawing heavily on his peculiar assets...
...name of the tune being played from a numbered list supplied by the sponsors, then match the tune's number with an accompanying bingo-type card. The first to plot five numbers in a row calls the radio station, screams "Tune-O!" and waits for the prizes to roll in: $1,000 in cash, jewelry, a new automobile...
...started simply enough. "Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance," Thomas Jefferson had cried; but the crusade was to roll and swell beyond even Jefferson's wildest dreams. The nation passed through the age of the one-room district schoolhouse, of the birch rod and the rattan cane, the primer, Noah Webster's famous speller and the Me Guff ey readers. Ever since the indefatigable Horace Mann had stormed through Massachusetts preaching the cause of better schools ("In a Republic, Ignorance is a Crime!"), successive generations of young Americans had been learning the three Rs as Dart...
...first years after World War II, Moscow strategists assumed that the Red Army could roll almost unopposed to the Atlantic if they decided to take the great chance on World War III. But it might be more prudent to capture Western Europe through the ballot box. Accordingly, Western European Communist Parties concentrated on political drives to exploit economic misery and insecurity. Their success was checked by the Marshall Plan, but they still knew that in event of war Western Europe offered no military obstacle to the Red Army. Last fall the Kremlin realized that the U.S. military aid program might...