Word: rollering
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...Roller's warehouse is a monument to bureaucratic bumbling. A stroll through it stirs up visions of shattered, best-forgotten programs for the public good, and the rise and fall of federal agencies. Of course Roller doesn't see it that way. He prefers to think of his 12,000-sq.-ft. warehouse on the Iowa state fairground in Des Moines as the U.S. Government's very own garage sale...
...Roller operates the warehouse for the surplus property division of Iowa's department of general services for the benefit of some 1,500 public agencies in Iowa. A beneficent act of Congress requires that federal excess property be offered to state and local agencies, virtually free of charge, before it is put on public auction. That means before all those cigar-chomping characters who excel at turning a profit from reselling Government castoffs can lay hands...
...first glance the warehouse, with its mounds of gas-mask bags, ponchos, entrenching tools, field jackets, might be confused with some kind of Army-Navy store. Over the past few years Roller has acquired enough military surplus to equip the national guard of a modest-size Central American dictatorship. G.I. helmets and uniforms, for instance, are much in demand as props for high school drama departments...
...fever that felled even the residents of Massachusetts. And the results of last week's elections are not, by themselves, the heralds of Armageddon. Instead, they are proofs--compass checks--of trends a few years older. They demonstrate that the car has gone over the top of the roller coaster, that the nation is shrieking and waving its hands in the air, and that gravity has taken over...
With some of the Harvard players already jumping up and down on the sidelines, freshman midfielder Beth Carillo slid a nice pass to St. Louis in the middle of the area. The co-captain blasted a hard roller to Smith's right and into the net at 41:39, for a little insurance and a lot more jumping up and down...