Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio stations−one of which refused to broadcast his manifesto on the ground that it sounded unbelievable. He also generously allowed Rodriguez's wife and children to leave the palace, thereby giving away one of his few bargaining cards. Early Monday morning, Quito stations began broadcasting a roll call of officers who remained loyal to Rodriguez. Air force planes buzzed the occupied palace, which was soon surrounded by troops of the loyal Vencedores battalion. By 4 in the afternoon it was all over. The rebel troops surrendered, but in the confusion, Gonzalez−dressed in civilian clothes...
...Back to school," once a pleasant, end-of-summer phrase, has virtually come to mean "Back to the barricades." In much of the U.S. last week, schoolchildren and their parents were concerned not with education but with busing, racial hostility and strikes. As buses began to roll, carrying black and white students across town to achieve integration, there was smouldering resentment in many communities and, in Louisville, outright violence. Boston, preparing to open its schools, feared the same. Millions of children could not even attend classes. Their schools were shut down in a growing wave of strikes by teachers angered...
Given the tempers on all sides, the prospects are that Boston will need every one of the more than 2,000 police and National Guardsmen who will be on hand to try to keep the peace when the buses begin to roll week after next. Boston's black community, which remained generally quiet last year, has grown increasingly restive about undiminished white opposition to busing. Indeed, sparks have already begun to fly. Last week several hundred members of the Committee Against Racism marched on city hall to demand that antibusing activists be indicted for violating the rights of schoolchildren...
...that. Perhaps not since Mark 3 Twain's Following the Equator (1897) ° have a wanderer's leisurely impressions 3 been hammered into such wry, incisive ° mots. Venice sits on its industrialized gulf "like a drawing room in a gas station"; small villages in Malaysia roll by: "Bidor, Trolak, Tapah and Klang - names like science fiction planets...
Finley claims he is acting like any other general manager consulting with his field manager. "The one difference," he says, "is that this general manager also happens to be the owner. It's my club, my money, and I'm gonna roll my dice as long as my money's on the table." Two other differences are that Finley is Finley, and he lives in Chicago, attending many games in Midwest cities, but getting to Oakland for only a dozen or so a year. Instead of huddling daily with Manager Alvin Dark, Finley calls him long-distance...