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Word: rolled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Refusing also to recognize the sovereignty of the new nation of South Viet Nam, he terrorized the back country, declared he would lop off the head of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. But last April Diem's army captured the rebel general, and the problem of whose head would roll was posed another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: A Life of Violence | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...husband, Outboard Motor King Ralph Evinrude. On hand to greet the yachtsmen was Rockin's most conspicuous author, smilin' Cartoonist Zock Mosley, who normally writes the overage dialogue of comic-strip hero Smilin' Jack. Why had he ventured into the teenagers rock 'n' roll rhythm? Drawled well-preserved Mosley: "I'm hepper than most bobby-soxers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...nation's elders fumed, fretted, legislated and pontificated last week over the socking syncopations of "rock 'n' roll" (TIME, June 18). Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock 'n' Roll | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...After a riot in Asbury Park, N.J.'s Convention Hall that sent 25 vibrating teen-agers to the hospital, Mayor Roland J. Hines slapped a rock-'n'-roll ban on all city dance halls. Taking the hint, Jersey City canceled Jazzman Paul Whiteman's "Rock 'n' Roll Under the Stars" show at the 24,000-seat Roosevelt Stadium. Cried anguished Sponsor Ed Otto: "We were executed by remote control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock 'n' Roll | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...word is spoken once the robbery is under way. Moving into an apartment above the store, they bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 16, 1956 | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

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