Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tastefully toppered for the Epsom Derby, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ignored with statesmanlike restraint an infield dotted with an "American" striptease tent, a rock-'n'-roll band and a "Beautiful Slave Girl in the Grip of a Fifteen-Foot Deadly Reptile," watched with reserve as Crepello, the favorite, galloped home free (see SPORT...
...slim six-footer at the bar had an unfamiliar face, but to the gamblers in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, he looked like an all right guy. He thumbed his racing form with professional elan and flashed a horse-choking roll of bills when he placed a bet or got quarters for the slot machines. These were such solid credentials that the gamblers never bothered to ask who the stranger...
...time for the second performance. Fats slipped on his four-carat diamond ring, sank a horseshoe-shaped diamond stickpin in a rich new tie. From the stage, the whine of an electric guitar and the bleat of a sax vibrated through the walls; the rock 'n' roll picadors were wearing down the audience. As his handlers hovered, Fats stuffed himself into a fresh, shimmering suit, then stepped daintily out of the dressing room and trotted onstage for the kill...
...Arthur was a solicitor and civil-service administrator before he took over Rugby nine years ago. Asked about his views on rock 'n' roll, he said: "I know nothing about [it], but I'm prepared to study." As to the Third Program cuts, he had reassuring words: "I was somewhat appalled when I heard the BBC were cutting it down. But having gone into the matter, I find the change may not be as catastrophic as was first supposed." The BBC stands ready to remedy its new boss's lack of a TV set when...
...cannot, but his one-man band plays on to the rock and roll of the wide Pacific. Amid all the dedicated bores, Miller remains a fascinating character. He is rather proud to find himself an institution of sorts-the No. 1 U.S. Bohemian. One of the most appealing things in his book is his shyly proud report that his correspondence (including a postcard from Mecca) is filed in the special-collections division of the University of Southern California's library, a mass of 10,000 items which must comprise the biggest pile of profound piffle since Greenwich Village...