Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bless My Soul!" Generations of students at Cambridge and London, and later at Harvard, learned to look alive when he exploded "God bless my soul!" That invocative usually heralded a significant pronouncement. His voice, in later years somewhat shrill, had the range of a roller coaster. In cutaway coat with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram...
...Just Thinking." One day last week, in the early afternoon sun, Giuseppe stood staring at his steam roller. "Well, Giuseppe, what are you doing there?" asked a worker, one Tomaso Sonnino. "Nothing. Just thinking," said Giuseppe. "Wondering what would happen if nobody could stop this thing. This one and all the others, just rolling on forever...
Tomaso shook his head and walked on. Suddenly a shadow came abreast of him. It was the steam roller, slow, driverless. Tomaso saw that there were dark stains on the white rollers. They were bloodstains. Fifty yards behind, three-year-old Rose Delauney, playing with her doll on the sidewalk, cried: "Come quick, papa. Come quick. Monsieur bleeds...
Said Jean Cresta, installed as the new driver. "He always seemed alone when he was with us. Alone with his steam roller...
Cresta seemed confident that the steam roller would not seduce...