Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race became a roller-coaster scramble for the shelter of the Michigan shore. One yacht made it the hard way, running aground and breaking up. Another snapped her mainmast. Distress flares shot up. When noses were counted at dawn, 34 badly battered boats had made it back to Port Huron and points north. The other four had doggedly refused to give...
...came through again in the last half of the inning, if not as lustily as usual. Ken Crumrine, after receiving a free ticket to first, worked his way around the bases by stealing second, taking third on Jack Forte's roller, and scoring easily as Art Conlon's grounder was fumbled...
...like to jump?" Bernstein asked. "I love to jump. I just don't like these damned airplanes." "I'm disappointed," said another after his third jump. "You just come up and fall out. You don't have to do a thing. A roller coaster is worse...
...General Eisenhower's armies ate deeper & deeper into the Reich, approaching Berlin and Dresden, and the Russian steam roller began clanking westward from the Oder River, the hottest question in the Allied world was: when will V-E day come? Behind that was another, subtler question: at what stage of German disintegration would a victory proclamation be justified? The second question was answered this week by Eisenhower in characteristically straightforward and sensible fashion: "There will be no V-E day until Germany is completely occupied, including all pockets of resistance, and the German Army is completely destroyed...
Reverse Rationing. In Lind, Wash., Mayor Joe Roller left his automobile at home to save gas, walked to work, was notified that during his stroll a gas truck had crashed into his garage, spilled 6,800 gallons of gas, caught fire, burned up his car and garage...