Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gasp snarl: "I don't see how the President can really be very much concerned about it. The ticker just carried the word that he is going out to Burning Tree to play golf." Finally, the House voted on Dan Reed's motion to recommit. When the roll had been called, it seemed that the protectionists had won, 201 to 200. But Joe Martin, Indiana's Charles Halleck, and Les Arends had too many outstanding political lOUs to let themselves be beaten in a vote that close. New York's Republican Representative Katharine St. George switched...
...first class fun," he recalls. "All you had to do was roll, kick, and play, and throw in a few agonizing grimaces while your opponent, or cohort, as the case might be, pretended to twist your ankle." To demonstrate he rolled up into a ball and twisted his leg much like a baby trying to put his toes into his mouth...
...West Side when a "late-model" car pulled up to the curb and the driver waved him over. "Do you believe in God?" asked the stranger, whom Mayes remembers as middleaged. "Yes," said Mayes. "Do you need some money?" "Yes," said Mayes. The man reached over, put a roll of bills in his hand and drove off. Round-eyed Bill Mayes looked down at his fist. It was clamped around six $50 bills...
...tall, weighing about 160 Ibs., between 45 and 55, got out and asked him if he wanted a lift. Patterson said he was waiting for a bus. "Well," said the phantom, "do you believe in God?" "Of course I do," answered Patterson. This time it was a roll of five $50 bills. "Take this as a blessing," said the stranger before he drove away...
...Gary, Ind., General Railway Signal Co. installed the nation's first fully automated freight-car yard for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway. By using radar and electronic brain circuits, the system sorts out and assembles freight cars by destination, automatically weighs them and controls their speed as they roll down an incline to assembly points, where they are coupled into trains. General Railway Signal is now installing similar systems in six other yards...