Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went into an outside loop. Both Sisto and Beck, neither of whom had fastened his safety belt, were thrown from their seats. Two things saved the plane. Sisto struck buttons which feathered the prp-pellors of three engines. Copilot Melvin Logan, who was securely belted in, was able to roll the ship right side up, a bare 300 to 400 feet from the ground...
Inside Job. In Oakland, Calif., Allen Nauman hid his $45 roll in his shoe, went to a movie, dozed off, awoke with the shoe still on, the roll gone...
...eastern Tennessee's McMinn County, on the western roll of the Blue Ridge Mountains, politics is played for keeps, right up to the gunstock. For almost 30 years, McMinn's shootingest politician has been a stocky, grim-faced Democrat named Thomas Burkett Ivins, 63. As a "revenooer," a deputy marshal and McMinn County's sheriff, Burkett Ivins had never been slow on the draw. He had killed seven men-all, it was decided, justifiably. Old Burkett was proud of his pistol prowess; no one in sight of his one good eye was going to outshoot...
...King, give up their seals of office, and forgo the honors, the chauffeurs and cars, the ?5,000 a year, the sense of power and position which most ministers, being human, come to consider theirs forever. Most of the ministers probably did not yet know just which heads would roll. Last week Prime Minister Attlee was apparently still making up his mind...
After two in a row like "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel" a theatrical team must face an awful temptation to dump whatever artistic ambition it ever had and roll on in its lucrative rut. Rodgers and Hammerstein have been so phenomenally successful on Broadway during the last few years that almost no one would have blamed them for letting their triumphs go Midas-like to their heads and for turning out a third musical with nothing new to add to the scope of its famous and profitable predecessors...