Word: rollingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Repsholdt squared his shoulders, continued: "One thing is fortunate. If there is any shortage more acute than the shortage in housing, it is the shortage of teachers. I'm not frightened about losing my job." Repsholdt got a big hand for his stand. But he did not roll back the angry majority, which, on a show of hands, had vowed all-out opposition to the integrated subdivision. Murmured one North Shore householder as Deerfielders signed up for the fight "We just can't afford to be democratic...
...imagistic liner notes by Poet Louis Aragon celebrate one of the oddest pop hits ever recorded-a French disk titled Heartbeat, featuring Composer Marie Philippe-Gérard and his "cardiac rhythms." One side is devoted to cha cha cha, the other to a Gallic rock 'n' roll. In each case, the rhythm section includes a thumping human heart...
...chest of a 21-year-old Parisian sales girl and model named Nicole Guillenette. What Philippe-Gérard liked about Nicole, he says, is that her heart turned over at a remarkably steady 58 beats to the minute (ideal, in his judgment, for rock 'n' roll). Moreover, it could be tuned up to an equally steady 115 (ideal for cha cha cha) after Nicole had taken some exercise, e.g., raced up several flights of stairs. Philippe-Gérard devised a special microphone that filtered out the noise of the bloodstream and the creaking...
Nivins was the manager of a rock 'n' roll singer named Melrose Baggy. Would Tom Clay take $200 and play a Baggy song on the air? No, said Clay. Later, they went for a ride in Clay's new Lincoln, and Nivins propositioned him again, offering $100. "I tell him, like, it was $200 last time," says Clay. "I also tell him this is one record which isn't going to happen. I find out later he has a tape recorder in his clothing...
Harvard swimming followers have long felt frustrated at watching strong Crimson teams roll over routine opponents, then drop their annual match with Yale...