Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move, bag, baggage and children. Correspondent Charles Mohr, driving crosscountry from San Francisco to his new assignment in the Washington bureau, tuned in a sharp traveler's-eye view. Mohr noted, in addition to such phenomena as foam-rubber hats and rock-'n'-roll-loving Indians, that the new state turnpikes are working a special kind of havoc on a special kind of citizen. Reported Mohr: "I heard one traveler remark on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, as he gratefully approached Pittsburgh, 'This is the first time I ever passed through three states without having a drink...
Rock, Not Roll, of Ages...
...Roll the Drums. In Moscow alone, 8,000 mass meetings were held in two days, and at them well-briefed party activists worked over the communiqué. Said Radio Moscow: "The strongest impression which one gains among the population is that those dismissed have no following." At a U.S. embassy party, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan-who, as usual, had lithely jumped the right way-promised: "Things are going to be the same as before, only better." Scores of cities and towns named Molotov or Kaganovich petitioned with punctual unanimity to have their names changed. Ukrainian Premier Nikifor Kalchenko charged...
Buffeted by the ocean's roll, the dog Boston had picked up in Bermuda soon became a mass of welts and bruises. "I found it difficult to shoot Mudie," said Boston, "but it was the most humane thing to do. He sort of yelped and turned over." Alone again, Boston longed for any sort of companionship, wrote in his log: "Noticed a very small fish swimming near the rudder. I hope that he stays there. It will be nicer to have company...
Sweden's Volvo auto group, aiming for 12,000 U.S. customers in 1957, also brought out a new model. The new Volvo (Latin for "I Roll") is a two-door family sedan with an 85-h.p. engine, a top speed of 95 m.p.h. Its U.S. price of $2,235 includes heater, defroster, whitewall tires...