Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grandmother leads Erendira on a bizarre odyssey across the desert to search for customers for Erendira's favors. As revenue begins to roll in, the grandmother restores the gaudy splendor of her old estate although her new empire is more of a traveling carnival which slowly expands to include Indian bearers, a photographer on a bicycle, a brass band, and numerous ox-carts packed with trinkets. At first the grandmother reminds Erendira cheerily that she only has eight years, seven months and eleven days more of slavery, if receipts continue at the same rate...
There are three important things that happen in Cambridge around the middle of October each year. The leaves turn color. Midterms invariably roll around. And Harvard plays Dartmouth in football...
...marketing boys at the entertainment conglomerate RCA must know their audience's secret needs. But who are they aiming for with this fan club stuff? A league of otherworldly transexuals? Or the stereotypical, rock-and-roll, teenybopper, fan club crowd? David's enigmatic, vaguely disquieting expression in the offer's picture provides no clue...
...British government has doubled spending on wave-power research this year, to $5.5 million, and the Japanese have committed $5 million over the next two years. They are betting that these investments could pay off in decades ahead. Oil wells may dry up, but waves will never cease to roll...
...generation gap would come to Muncie slowly, while citizens clung to the old values. That is just about what happened, according to the new researchers. Says Warren Vander Hill, a historian at Ball State who has worked on many post-Lynd Muncie studies: "First you learn to roll with the punches and accept things that were unacceptable, then you hold onto those very basic ideas about life with an even tighter grip...