Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long roll of wrack at sea, the burning of the Skaubryn will be remembered as a disaster where men triumphed, and not the elements. The master of City of Sydney sent a radio message of farewell to Skaubryn's Captain Alf Faeste and his crew: "Your feat in lowering 16 boats containing 1,300 people into the water in 35 minutes without loss of life or injury, with so little warning, and from a blazing ship, is a superb example of seamanship and discipline unique in maritime history. When you speak of this disaster, you can hold your heads...
...election night the issue was never in doubt. Two hours after the polls closed in Ontario and Quebec, Liberal Pearson conceded the Tory victory, then sadly watched it roll westward across the time zones. It left the once-dominant Liberals with 49 seats, reduced the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to a splinter of 8 seats, totally wiped out of Parliament Western Canada's funny-money Social Credit movement, which held 19 seats in the old House of Commons. Surveying the wreckage of his party's national ambitions, Alberta's Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning offered...
...show has adapted worthy works ranging from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. As a sheer piece of logistics, it has piled up phenomenal records: it has used 15,243 costumes, 4,203 settings, 210,103 props, and 9,035 gallons of coffee to keep the casts and crews rolling on. It seemed that Matinee Theater would roll on forever...
...will employ 3,000 and provide an additional $180,000 in taxes. From its very beginning, the history of the U.S. is a record of change and of movement; the mark of the American people has become their remarkable ability to adjust to the demands of change and to roll with the movement. Nowhere last week was the common aptitude better stated than in Woburn, Mass., where Gas Station Owner Joe Hanson was moving his house an eighth of a mile and building a new gas station to accommodate a wider, smoother, brighter, speedier Route 93. Said Joe Hanson...
...Budapest, smoke pours steadily from factory chimneys, and in the city, movie houses disgorge streams of blinking customers (Marty and Trapeze are sellouts). In bars (where only foreigners and party bureaucrats have cash enough to drink regularly) U.S.-make jukeboxes squawk the raucous normalcy of rock 'n' roll. But the iron fist looms through the shoddy substitute for velvet: at a Budapest restaurant, a grey-haired old waiter is seized by security police, vanishes. His crimes: he has a young relative who is studying to be a priest, and he has been observed chatting with foreigners in scraps...