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Word: rollered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Warren made a speech which demonstrated his infinite capacity for the revolving, roller-bearing, dipsy-doodle phrase. He "took up the burden" . . . "entered upon consecrated service" and promised to "eliminate roaming livestock from the roads." He promised that one & all could come to his office and see him, though, he added with a wink, "... it will help a whole lot if you voted right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Done Up Classy in Tallahassee | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous . . . He's just a highminded Holy Roller in a semi-religious frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Thin Man | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Winthrop neatly dumped a hard-playing Dudley line and secondary onto the soldiers Field turf yesterday and then roller arrogantly over them for a 24 to 0 shutout, the Puritans' second straight win of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Blanks Dudley as Lowell Edges by Adams | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

...comfortable parlor-bedroom-&-bath of his own on the penthouse level of the school. On Sundays the priests will help out in Westchester parishes and get to know the parents of their pupils. The parents will also be invited to school functions, including the evening dances and roller-skating parties in the gym. "Westchester is a strong coeducational county," said Father Krug. "Our boys see no girls in school hours, but the parties will meet the coed situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamentals of the Faith | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Which transfers Vari-Typed copy to a zinc plate and then to a rubber roller which prints it, thus eliminating metal type and the costlier flat-bed press which small papers ordinarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Departure in New Haven | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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