Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grasps all the varied foreign-aid operations and sorts them, logically, into a streamlined framework comprehensible at home and abroad. The program is new in the sense that the Administration now seeks to deploy the U.S.'s economic might not merely to stave off Communist aggression but to roll it back by enlarging the area and the appeal of freedom-plus-economic-progress. Moreover, the new program, evolving out of such successful predecessors as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, is in keeping with U.S. traditions and the U.S. idea. "We are stirred not only by calculations...
...water. Though Union's experimental retort needs no water, the waxy shale crude does not flow well in a pipeline unless carried along by water, and the nearest source is the Colorado River 15 miles away. Even more important, Rubel thinks a profitable shale industry can never really roll without the 27½% depletion allowance now given to liquid-crude oilmen. At present, shalemen are classified as mineral miners, get only a 15% tax break on the raw shale. Nevertheless, Rubel foresees a bright Union future in shale. Says he "We have about $15 million...
Manager Laverock must also be prepared to take the stage when the vaudeville acts fail to show, throw out unruly customers ("A pioneer be, but leave no marks") and assume a host of other duties, i.e., "Frinstance, the Ladies' gets stopped up, don't be afraid to roll up your sleeves and put your 'ands into 'em. A little bit soap, a little bit water, everything's gone and forgotten. For dead babies, inform the police." The plot, such as it is, concerns two wars. One is fought between Sam Yudenow and a neighborhood storekeeper...
...second handbill--a larger one--states in part: "Let's all roll up our sleeves ... '57 is AFL Year at Harvard ... Let's bring a REAL, militant fighting union into Harvard... Your group should be with...
...heart of the crusade is Madison Square Garden, its head is a seven-room suite in Times Square where 35 permanent staff members, 30 temporary employees and more than 200 volunteer clerical workers control a hectically complex organism. Automatic typewriters clack out letters appealing for prayer; duplicating machines roll out instructions and memorandums. On wall maps of New York, the U.S. and the world, red, blue and green pins and tapes spot churches (1,510 in Greater New York) and prayer groups supporting the campaign. Staff members: 1) channel the activities of 108,415 "prayer partners...