Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protest, however, was in vain. For one reason or another, 21 of the pro-government Assemblymen failed to answer roll call last week when the last of the law's 58 provisions came 10 a vote. Whether that was a gesture of confidence or abstention made no difference: in the final balloting, opposition to the standby constitution was crushed...
...Nationalists to 41 newly created seats (TIME, Dec. 5), Prime Minister Strydom was in a hurry to get on with his designs. His bill proclaiming the supremacy of a Parliament not answerable even to the courts, and striking the last 50,000 Colored (mixed blood) voters from the common roll, rode through first and second readings and was ready for final enactment as a constitutional amendment this week. The last constitutional safe guards enacted in South Africa's founding charter of 1909 to protect the rights of non-whites would thus be repealed. For the dispirited remnants...
...swinging improvisations did not seem so improvised any more. But this exhibit from the past-venerable enough to have a movie made about his life-was still able to show a new generation that there is something besides Dixieland, "progressive," and the noise called rock-'n'-roll. "One of the worst things about this stuff they play nowadays," said Benny, "is what it does to the musicians. I had an awful time trying to get some guys together who could really deliver music. A little while ago I went over to Birdland to see what was going...
...building where the rentals were low. We called the new firm "Sherry and Powers" and confidently expected we would put Witmark and New York's Tin-pan Alley out of business. The Sherry stood for Sherwood and the Powers was my middle name. Sherwood had one battered roll-top desk and I had the piano. To give the office a proper professional atmosphere, we evolved imitation montages of celebrity photographs and framed them to impress any stray visitors...
...blamed himself for "one great mistake before: I avoided bloodshed when I was in power, and treated my opponents lightly." His promise: "I shall not make the same mistake again. Many heads will roll when I return to Buenos Aires. It will be terrible, but it can't be helped...