Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee thought the books in order, but said the membership roll included 242 more names than the total included on the role in Dean Watson's office. The Committee, not one of whom had a Harvard College background, felt that the predisposition "to prevent a presumption of innocence on behalf of any accused HYRC member" hampered their investigation...
...career of onetime Hillbilly Singer Haley, 31, has picked up speed. He has scheduled a major U.S. TV appearance, expects to play Las Vegas. The credit for his new good fortune he attributes solely to the perception of the British teenager, who has embraced rock 'n' roll slang as enthusiastically as he has the music. An Oxonian departing the university has been overheard saying goodbye to his dean in the words: "See you later, alma mater...
Automakers, guarding against last year's overproduction, were also keeping their output close to sales, had 640,000 cars on hand v. 870,000 last year at this time. Demand was strong enough by last week for producers to roll out a 1957 record of more than 148,000 new cars, up about 16% from the same week last year. Ward's Reports said Detroit production will ride at a near record for the first quarter largely because sales-happy Ford and Chrysler will push output 30% ahead of last year. On the other hand, motormakers are paring...
...stallion, deeper into his estate where he discovers a pantherish moonshiner named Aaron McCool who echoes the sentiments that Duncan feels: "They got a law for everything now-hunting, fishing, planting crops. Spew them out like buckshot. A man's got to learn how to duck, nowadays, and roll hisself in a ball and sull up like a possum...
...daughter. Trouble is that Fawny is a born homemaker. Looking at the rich soil around the deserted house she wants them to buy, she exclaims: "Plant you a teacup handle here, next dinnertime you'd cut a set of china." Uncle Chunk has long since warned Polk: "A rolling stone don't gather no mortgages." So off they roll, to the Southwest, to California, wherever a crop is making. Author Williams' world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck's dustbowl refugees in The Grapes of Wrath, but she has incurred no literary debt. Hers...