Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ellington had contributed something valuable to all mankind-like George Washington Carver-your selection would have been unassailable. But you have a great responsibility to the vast readership you reach. Just because Ellington and Armstrong and our rock 'n' roll nitwits have a following among people who are moved by the noises of blah-blah and nothingness, there is no reason why you should publicize their worthless causes...
...cast of sewer rats. Her most persistent theme: a lament over man's inhumanity to beasts. As a thoughtful cat tells a shepherd dog in a message from the realm of the dead: "Beware of death: tell them [those-who-walk-on-two-paws] that the Styx will roll along their white skulls in the infernal regions while the animals on the shores howl with...
...your Aug. 13 mag you call me a "rock 'n' roll" disk jockey. I have been actively fighting the stuff for years, and am known far and wide as the fearless champion of genuine cornball music. This way-out rock 'n' roll is strictly for the squares...
...News. On roll-call day-Wednesday-Nixon had planned to see nine more delegations-but news from his home in La Habra, Calif, forced a cancellation. To Nixon's suite came a call from his brother Don: their father, Frank Nixon, 77, had suffered a partially ruptured abdominal artery, and seemed near death. The light went out of Dick Nixon's triumphal march to nomination: before 8 a.m., he and Pat were on the way home...
...E.D.T. from Manhattan when special page proofs of the Times's regular international edition* were placed on a revolving drum. At the same time, in a small Market Street office in San Francisco, another revolving drum bearing page-sized photographic film was made ready to roll. As the drums spun in unison 1,500 times a minute, electronic equipment carried impulses along the transcontinental circuit and converted them back into light, forming an image of the page on the film. A four-man technical crew supervised by Timesman E. Clifton Daniel Jr. (Mrs. Margaret Truman Daniel served coffee...