Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whenever the Derby offense started to roll, Tottingham would blast the ball out of bounds. This gave the defense time to get set, with the only penalty a ten yard Derby free throw from the sidelines. The tactics worked. As the fourth quarter ended, Derby had taken 65 free throws but had been unable to score...
...There's a ditch on the other side of the wall," said Jaskilka. "Roll over the wall into the ditch, then get up fast and make for the right side of the beach. Good luck...
...LSVPs in groups of five making endless circles before the great grey assault ships. Ahead were the cruisers, destroyers and rocket ships. Overhead, Navy and Marine planes streaked for targets ashore. The big guns boomed like tremendous bass drums. The smaller 40-mm. guns hammered away with the incessant roll of snare drums...
Then, so suddenly it was frightening, the deep roll of naval gunfire, the swooshing rockets, the chatter of the 40-mm. guns, the crump of bombs, died down...
...Harder? The fast price rises and sudden shortages of materials made plain that the armament load would hit civilian production much harder than expected when the arms actually began to roll out in the next six months. (Nickel was already so short that some automakers were talking about going back to painted "chrome work" as in early World War II days...