Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies have come in for heavy criticism from Congress, which resounds with cries to roll back surging oil and gasoline prices, repeal special tax benefits that the oil companies get and slap on an excess-profits tax. A few Senators and Representatives are even talking seriously about wholly or partly nationalizing Exxon and other U.S. oil companies...
...meetings in Washington between trucker representatives and W.J. Usery Jr., director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Milton Shapp had organized the meetings and acted as mediator. Still, the agreement was not good enough for many drivers, who are demanding that the Government roll back fuel prices at the pump-a difficult, if not impossible task, because of rising world oil prices...
...champion scatologists, he argues, are Germans, who tend to roll in the aisles after the first hint of a comic's outhouse smirk. Is martinet toilet training the explanation? Farb wonders but never decides...
...about to roll over and give the game away. With two Harvard players in the penalty box, B.U.'s Bob Dudley scored a goal at 13:20. One minute later Dudley scored again to put B.U. ahead...
...returns to the Jew her grandfather wanted her to marry, a fanatic who wakes her to roll in the snow with him for penance. At last, dying, despairing, wondering about "the Apostates who denied God, considering the world a random combination of atoms," Akhsa rips open her pillowcase and finds in a crown of feathers God's feathery Hebrew name...