Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Me?" The years passed and the same old heights seemed harder to reach, but Dotty Tyler kept jumping. She made her bow to progress by learning the Western roll. But when she got to Helsinki for the 1952 Olympic Games, a pulled abdominal muscle kept her down to 5 ft. 2½ in. and seventh place. Still she jumped−in addition to her old jobs as full-time housewife and part-time secretary. Last year she studied ballet on the theory that it would help. ("It was lots of fun. They wanted us to sing...
...record gives an amusingly phony account of an invasion from space ("We switch you now to our on-the-spot reporter downtown . . . Take it away, John Cameron Cameron"), with rock-'n'-roll overtones. In a dizzy pastiche, almost every sentence of the invasion "broadcast" is matched by an answering snatch of some popular rock-'n'-roll record. The result is a kind of contrapuntal dialogue. "The flying saucers," says a breathless announcer, "are real!" "Real." echoes a familiar rock-'n'-roll record a split second later, "Real, when I feel what my heart...
...publishers and record companies at first claimed infringement of their copyrights, and threatened lawsuits. But settlements were quickly reached with most of the publishers, particularly when it appeared that the record was becoming a hit; being quoted on The Flying Saucer actually improved sales of rock-'n'-roll tunes. By now, record companies whose disks are not represented on The Flying Saucer are downright hurt. "It's the greatest sampler of all," wailed one publisher. "If you're not on Saucer, you're nowhere...
...howls of "More! More!" and there was dancing in the aisles. One young woman broke loose from her escort and rioted solo around the field, while a young man encouraged her by shouting, "Go, go, go!" Festival officials began to fear that something like a rock 'n' roll riot was taking place. One of them was pleading with beaming Bandleader Ellington to stop. When the fellow's entreaties got too emphatic, Duke wagged a soothing finger at him and said mildly, "Don't be rude to the artists...
...ranger suddenly finds himself a sheriff out west, combating a gang of masked raiders. But, with the help of his singing pardner, Dean Martin, he blunders his way to triumph over the baddies. He falls off a horse, ropes himself with a lariat, spills tobacco when he tries to roll a cigarette. It's like that...