Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capsule of Canada. In a sense, B.C. is Canada in giant capsule form, a pioneer land where the frontiers are just starting to roll back. In the first 100 years British Columbians managed to plow only about 33% of the available farmland, utilize barely a fraction of their other known natural resources. Yet prosperity is a condition of life, to be greeted with the same calm pleasure as the monster 25-lb. brook trout (in the East a five-pounder is trophy size) hauled from the rivers...
...Sigman wrote some lyrics for it. But it took another seven years to the end of the long, long road from the McKinley Administration to the Hit Parade. Last summer M-G-M hauled out the old song, gave it a slushy arrangement halfway between rock 'n' roll and a ballad. By last week It's All in the Game was the biggest "new" hit in the country, ranked No. 1 on virtually all the charts...
...remarkable way in which the U.S. consumer kept up his credit payments despite the recession contributed to economic stability. With a record total of $78.5 billion in savings accounts, he had a fat roll to draw on. With the resources at his command, plus unemployment compensation and other supplementary benefits, he kept up his credit payments while cutting back on new commitments. Says a Los Angeles banker: "The consumer is not as wild an individual as many thought. For the most part, he is serious about satisfying his obligations...
...snatches a woman's purse only to wind up with $2. When he steals a bicycle, planning to sell it, it is in turn stolen from him by a rival gang. When he decides to throw away the last of his father's carefully instilled ideals and roll a drunk, Steely's childish anguish reaches its pitch-and Author Mayfield reaches for the help of the long hand of coincidence. Up to that point. The Long Night is a simple, touching story that fuses the night world of Harlem and the frenzied world of a child...
...Sahara, 70-1. Of 18 overseas territories, only French Guinea voted no. French residents in the Soviet Union plumped for De Gaulle 74-43, and in the New York voting area, 2,343 to 152. France itself, in a record turnout, jammed the polling places to roll up a majority of 79.25% for the new Gaullist constitution...