Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a Chekhovian irony in seeing jaunty, paunchy Dictator Franco review Moorish. Spanish, German and Italian troops on victorious parade in 1939 and, an instant later hearing Narrator Walter Cronkite remind viewers that U.S. Sherman tanks roll down these same avenues today. As Scriptwriter Hughes explained: "Victory is a fragile thing, and history does not linger long in the 20th century...
Freshman teams are also quite active this week as they roll into the second semester schedules. The Frosh Wrestling team does not open its season until Feb. 8, againt Exeter...
...fellas, let's roll it," said Johnson to the television men, who were still gasping after lugging their heavy gear up the stairs. They protested that one of their number had not yet arrived. "Well," snapped Johnson, "you take it and give it to him." Told that could not be done, Johnson was upset. "Now listen," he growled, "I told you to be ready." He had, in fact, given eight minutes' notice-which was quite a lot for a man whose breakneck energies had already turned the first week of the 85th Congress, Second Session, into...
That morning I met with the other Social Revolutionary Deputies at a small restaurant not far from the Tauride Palace. Roll was called. Rosettes of red silk and entry tickets were handed out. We exchanged news and rumors-it was said that the delegates who had been arrested by the Reds were now to be released from the Peter Paul Fortress. This Bolshevik "gesture" was widely commented on. It seemed a clear sign of yielding on the part of an unyielding regime. The situation appeared to be developing more favorably than anyone would have, thought...
...year passed before such palaces as the new Havana Riviera and Capri hotels could be built and before the mob could raise the "nut"-the bankroll behind the chips. But by last month ten Havana casinos were going, most of them profitable from the first roll. Running the Sans Souci casino was a Lansky hood, Santo Trafficante Jr.; at several others Lansky was the boss or named the boss...