Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thumb, Johnson signaled to presiding senators whom to recognize-speakers who would not antagonize Southerners or be trapped by Republicans. A twirl of Johnson's lifted forefinger, the airman's signal to rev up, means speed on the Senate floor. A whisper from Lyndon during roll call, and the clerk shifts into a slow, minor key. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell whether the Senate is rushing or loitering. But even Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, no expert, spotted Johnson's delay last week during the wait for Humphrey, and gruffly declared that it bothered...
...come. The evening boxing class-an effort to keep potential delinquents off the streets-was in full swing. Physical Education Teacher James O'Tarrell. 28, simply assumed that the boy was just another pupil. Then the time came for the class to roll up the mats and leave. Instead of helping with the work, the boy stood on the sidelines and jeered...
I.C.I., which has poured an average 100 million yearly into plant expansion nd modernization since the war, decided to roll ahead with more expansion. Britain's steel industry announced that it will boost production 5% this year (to at least 19.5 million tons), go ahead with blueprints for expansion that call for spending up to $180 million yearly over the next three years...
...Engineers said the Skyrocket could not survive a spin. Bridgeman fell 7,000 ft. in ten seconds in a spin-and survived it. Another time engineers said the Skyrocket would not handle badly if sent into a sharp pushover at high altitude, but Test Pilot Bridgeman discovered: "Harder she rolls, harder and faster. The flat horizon line flips wildly through the squinting slit windows. I fight the crazy gyration with the ailerons. They are no weapons. They are feathers in a windstorm ... I release my hand from the aileron control and try to get out of phase with the roll...
...whiter. Silence is more acute . . . Fear seems to be independent, a ghost sitting on my shoulder . . . Time is now. Nothing but this experience is significant ... It is intensely bright outside . . . There seems to be no reflection; it is all black or white, apparent or nonapparent. No half-tones ... I roll to the right and there it is. Out of the tiny window slits there is the earth, wiped clean of civilization . . . The earth curves to the south. It is as if I am the only living thing connected to this totally strange, uninhabited planet 15 miles below...