Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indifference & Fear. For the most part, rank-and-file Teamsters across the nation -the men who pay their $2-to-$6 monthly dues-are content to keep their eyes on the road and not on union affairs. They roll into the city platforms to unload produce and furniture, autos and chickens. They drive cabs, deliver flowers, department-store merchandise and groceries, cart off garbage. They are strong and competent. But as Teamsters, they are either uninformed, indifferent or scared...
...Unrealistic. When physicians cannot afford extra help, nurses, technicians, receptionists and doctors' wives are pressed into service to roll back the paper tide. The physician himself must read all the reports and sign them, must give technical information that only he can supply (some insurance companies even require reports in the doctor's own handwriting). Says an Atlanta surgeon: "I could spend a whole day right now, just dictating answers to this stack of forms here on my desk. But if I did that, how am I going to care for the people over at the hospital waiting...
When a questioner at the Moscow World Youth Festival inquired about the "degenerate American comic-strip and rock-'n'-roll culture," top-ranking Red novelist and Propagandist llya Ehrenburg spoke mildly, once again showed himself to be an indicator of the changeable Soviet climate: "Whoever asked that question doesn't understand American culture, which has nothing to do with rock 'n' roll or comic strips. American culture is represented by Whitman, Dreiser, Hemingway^ and other men of genius." Continued the many-faced Ehrenburg, who toured the U.S. in 1946, roasted it for its slums...
...beyond that, instead of just waddling about his own business, Cecil began to court Penelope. He grabbed her flat tail in his duckbilled, toothless mouth, and held on for dear life while Penelope dragged him around the pool in slow circles. At times Cecil would let go and roll over and over in the water. But Penelope, who after all weighs two pounds to Cecil's four, did not see what there was to be so ecstatic about. She didn't want Cecil around any more. Her tail hurt...
...Pentwater, Mich., Dairyman Claire W. Nelson explained that he let the radio blare women's screams gunshots and rock 'n' roll at his cows all day so that when "a stranger comes into the barn they aren't upset, because they've heard everything...