Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nest of Chinese boxes. School buses headed toward the season's last mile; power mowers and outboard motors pulsed the season's first promise. Fragrance of honeysuckle and roses overlay the smell of charcoal and seared beef. The thud of baseball against mitt, the abrasive grind of roller skate against concrete, the jarring harmony of the Good Humor bell tolled the day; the clink of ice, the distant laugh, the surge of hi-fi through the open window came with the night...
...softball teams, ten housewives' softball teams. In season, the leagues play 75 boys' and 30 men's basketball teams, 77 football teams, all coached by volunteers, while other activities range through drama, dance and charm classes, bowling, dog-training classes, "Slim 'n' Trim" groups, roller skating, photography, woodcraft, and lessons in how to ice a cake. Says Joy Hudson, 35, mother of three children: "There is a problem of getting too busy. Some weeks my husband is home only two nights a week. My little boy often says, 'Anybody going to be home tonight...
...expensive presents that she cannot collect unless she goes home with him. On the way home, the sprightly quarry leads the hard-breathing hunter a merry chase through an amusement park; and before he can catch up with her, old age catches up with him. He collapses after a roller-coaster ride, and at home he has to rest. But he soon feels strong enough to offer her a bottle of champagne. In an uproarious seduction scene, the poor old goat discovers that all the time he has been after her virtue, the dear child has been after his wallet...
Aunt Berthe is on a roller coaster of feminine suspense as decorators install a new oval door in her luxurious apartment...
...real estate profits will be taxfree. When the intangible write-offs are used up by 1962, Sterling will carefully gear his well drilling to his real estate taxes, and get rich at the benefit of the tax laws. Says Sterling: "Our people will have to put on roller skates to keep up with the money." Sunset's calculated net gain over the next eight years in its end run around the Revenue Service: $25 million...