Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beams from an August moon. Tammany (it was said) invented the canoe, discovered corn, beans, crabapples and tobacco (for use in destroying fleas). His most heroic feat was in wrestling the Evil Spirit for 50 days. Finally Tammany upended the Evil Spirit with a hip lock and tried to roll him into the Ohio River. But an immense rock stood in the way, and Tammany failed to conquer evil...
...Cyclopean eye stares deep into the Minoan age that has come down only in legend and a few tantalizing shards from Peloponnesus and Crete. Misty islands float in a magic wide-screen sea, naiads romp along the water's edge, enchantresses lurk in sacred groves, galleys roll and toss on angry waves conjured up by Poseidon...
Clearing the Name. The names of Amerigo's contemporaries in Florence read like a glory roll: Lorenzo de' Medici, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Leonardo da Vinci. Good Florentine that he was, he had no trouble mixing an interest in art and ideas with the art of business. While he was in Seville, Spain, as an agent for Florentine interests, he came to know Columbus and King Ferdinand, who gave him the chance to go on voyages that resulted in the first useful maps of the New World's continental coastline...
...reports in No. i take-off position. Am I clear?" The ramp commander, using control-tower jargon, can either "hold" him or demand: "What are you, Mister?" (to which the cadet must say: "Sir, I am an F-94C"), or he can let him go: "You are clear to roll...
...Louis some seven public and private groups are debating what to do, but to date have accomplished little. Dallas left the off-street parking job to the parking companies. In four years, they boosted spaces almost 50%, but they still cannot keep up with the 270,445 cars that roll into the city every day. The twin problems of parking and downtown traffic are speeding the nation's flight to the suburbs...