Word: rollered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though tensions have eased, little else has noticeably changed since the riots. Not only are most of Watts's pillaeed stores still closed, but the slum is still without a single restaurant, bowling alley, roller rink or movie theater (the nearest cinema is a 60?, four-mile round-trip bus ride away). Men loll in clusters on front porches drinking Colt .45 beer. When a white man passes, a lanky teen-ager taunts him: "Better not be here at 5. That's when the riot's gonna start all over again." A police car drives...
...should realize that my wife is not a rock 'n' roller or a pop singer but the queen of song...
...specialized libraries in particular, the only answer to suffocation by paper is automation, which runs from the crudest idea to the most dazzling concept of the sophisticated mind. In the Detroit Public Library, book procurement is speeded up by sending boys whizzing down the 250-ft.-long stacks on roller skates. On the other hand, scientists dream that one day a scholar will be able to quiz a regional computer by telephone from his office; whereupon the answer, perhaps from a paper by a foreign colleague, will bounce off an orbiting communications satellite first into a simultaneous translator and then...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The North American Roller-Skating Championships in Lincoln, Neb., and the World Professional Target Diving Championship in Las Vegas...
...example, is strictly liable for injuries to bystanders. But except in the case of food and drink, the doctrine has never applied until recently to normal sales transactions. Now it is being rapidly extended to cover the sale of almost any product that has some potential danger-from roller skates to airplanes. A key precedent in this process occurred in 1960 after a New Jersey driver slammed his new car into a brick wall, apparently because the steering wheel was defective. Even though the trial judge was unable to find evidence of negligence by either manufacturer or driver, he held...