Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dawes was attending the 40th reunion of the class of 1884 at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. Said TIME: "Naturally, since a big convention was going on at Cleveland, there was some listening-in by radio. Several members of '84 were at it. After a hot roll call, the Republican nominee for Vice President was announced. It was one of those very Marietta '843 [Dawes himself] who were listening in. And he exclaimed . .. : 'Well, I declare...
...help her outrun submarines. Fore & aft, her plates, instead of being riveted together in overlaps, like the Queens', are welded end to end, making the hull lighter, smoother and faster. Much of her superstructure is made of aluminum to cut down weight and lessen the ship's roll. In her compact white engine rooms (two separate rooms to lessen the danger from torpedoes in time of war), oil-fired boilers supply high-pressure steam to power the turbines that drive four giant propellers. These generate enough power for a city the size of San Antonio. From dog kennels...
...left leg is gone, his digestion is chaotic, his heart unpredictable-the inheritance, in part at least, of ten brutal years in Dachau. When he talks, his left hand flicks and darts and claws at the air, and his eyes, affected by years of Nazi beatings, roll and bulge in a way that gives a continually fanatical cast to words that often do border on fanaticism. He lives on cigarettes, barbiturates and coffee; he wears perpetual pain as casually as an undershirt. Partly paralyzed, he is often confined to bed for prolonged periods-as he was again last week...
...artist with a fresh eye who feels confined by frames and flat surfaces. For ten years he has tried to get a sense of volume into his paintings by rejecting the conventional canvas for molded shapes of wood and plaster. His paintings (TIME, July 9) sweep around curves, roll wavelike along walls. Last week Artist Junyer's latest assault on convention was on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...precautions, everything looked fine & dandy, as it has all along to him. "I don't think there will be any more trouble," Soldier Van Fleet announced optimistically. "Bull" Boatner thought otherwise. "We can't get into those compounds," he fretted. "We can't take a roll-call. We don't know what they're plotting." But plotting they were...