Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backyard gasoline fire. To save his life, a surgeon at Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital amputated both of Dale's gangrenous legs below the knees. But Dale did not know that. To keep his son's spirits up, Howard Richey brought a new pair of roller skates to the hospital. Dale looked forward to trying them out and the fine time he would have...
...Valtin, ex-OGPU agent who told all in his best-selling Out of the Night (1941), was jugged (and then released) as an undesirable alien (1942), served with the armed forces in the Pacific, and finally became a U.S. citizen last January, was still roller-coastering. In New Haven, Conn., the U.S. Attorney went to court to appeal the order giving him citizenship...
...party had hired a cab in Zurich, and gaily roller-coastered 60-odd miles through the Alps to Chur. The ceremony itself was an intimate ten-minute affair at the local registry office. The wedding feast: coffee and cakes in a patisserie. Then back by cab to picturesque Zurich. Then off to Bern and the Hotel Bellevue...
...Protestant sects, it is hailed as a sign of the times: the beginnings of a great post-war religious revival and consolidation. Just as often, though not so well publicized an occurrence, new seets are breaking off from old ones. A part of the congregation of a Holy Roller church in a southern community may disagree with the majority on some such issue as the permissibility of smoking and a new seet is born, perhaps under the name Holy Jumpers or Holy Scramblers...
Some years ago, theorists of the Keynes-Hansen school were summarily tagged as "pump-primers." That emotionally charged label no longer does them justice. Professor Hansen argues tellingly for an integrated set of Federal policies which will diminish the roller-coaster swings of the economy from prosperity to ruin. The recommended measures include such familiar short-run ones as expanded public works in depression and cyclically adjusted tax burdens, together with attempts to get at the more fundamental factors through income redistribution, subsidized consumption, and active encouragement of private investment. The nation's best-known advocate of deliberate fiscal planning...