Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been said that anyone with money and a little pull could go to S.U.I, and get a degree, but you had to have brains to get one from Iowa State College. When I was attending I.S.C., the saying went: "Flunk out at Iowa State and be on the honor roll at Iowa...
...force Dakota (DC-3) over the flood-devastated provinces of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. Hundreds had drowned; scores of thousands were homeless in an area almost the size of South Carolina. Later, from a low-flying helicopter, Nehru saw the levees disintegrate and the river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills, temples, schools and homes collapse and vanish into the muddy torrent. Once a great mass of earth crashed...
Last week, riding in a gleaming, Japanese-built parlor car behind an old, Philadelphia-built locomotive decorated with the red stars of Mao Tse-tung's China, British Laborites Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan and their six fellow travelers emerged from three weeks behind the Iron Curtain to roll across the Lo Wu bridge in luxurious oblivion of the lowly footpath beneath them. In Hong Kong the touring Laborites parted company: Attlee to go to Australia, Bevan and the others to visit Japan. But behind them in Red China, they had obligingly left with Chinese newsmen a joint declaration that...
VOLKSWAGEN is selling so well that the company is two to five months behind with orders. Volkswagenwerk Boss Heinz Nordhoff (TIME, Feb. 15) expects to roll out 235,000 cars this year, sell 45% outside Germany...
Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran cisco Examiner, who likes nothing better than balancing on the knife edge of propriety, last week passed along to readers a choice item about Cinemactress Ava Gardner. One night, while gambling at Lake Tahoe, said Caen, Ava announced: " 'I want to roll the dice for $1,000.' She picked up the dice and began rubbing them up and down the front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted...