Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the bus doors opened, even the reddest-eyed wanted to beeline it for the fair's million-dollar midway. They could see the wonders agleam in the sun-the Rolloplanes, the two Ferris wheels, the giant roller coaster, the crazy houses, the Moonrocket and the sideshow tent. But teachers and chaperons had come in the buses, too, and they had a mind for other things. One teacher bluntly told her charges: "You can't ride a thing until you see all the serious exhibits...
Roanoke acted grown-up about it. The kid from Philadelphia (age 10) tried to, too, but two big tears rolled down his face after he lost one tough game. The Indianapolis champ got homesick despite roller coasters, popcorn and free rides on fire engines. Said he: "I'm worried about my rabbits." When they talked shop, they debated only one question: who had backspin on shooters and who didn't. Backspin, to make the shooter stick in the ring, was the key to success on the slick cork rings, which were faster than dirt. No one gave away...
Rehearsal on Skates. A gusty woman who has been known to roller skate from her midtown club to the theater for rehearsals, Marie sits in absolute quiet for half an hour before each show to store up enough intensity to project the sinister malevolence of Madame Flora across the footlights. A Roman Catholic, she solemnly says "thank you" to the statuette of the Madonna on the stage when the final curtain is down. Says she: "I am having the time of my life. Each night I dedicate the performance to somebody-a friend, my dead husband. Then I think...
...getting plump, is 20 pounds heavier than when he battled Communists. He is a family man. Recently, while his hospitable, bespectacled wife and four sprouting children looked on, Chen displayed a bit of simple Western technology he had learned. Puffing a bit, he showed them how to roller-skate on shiny contraptions just arrived from...
Halfway to an Amalgam. He will go farther than roller skating toward Western ways, but he wants the West to try to see China's problems through Chinese eyes. When George Marshall, like many another American, last year suggested coalition with the Communists, men like Chen were shocked (although Chen has been too correct to say so). To Marshall and other Americans Communism still seems a distant threat. Chen and his friends have had the Reds breathing down their necks for 20 years. It has been war, bitter, open, accepted. Nationalist Communications Minister Yu Ta-wei accepts the fact...