Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the roll was finally called at 2:30 in the morning, 64 nations voted in favor of Dulles' resolution. Six nations, including a troubled Canada, abstained. Britain, France and Israel could muster up only two other votes-Australia and New Zealand-against the ceasefire...
Last week the Carracci received a tribute from the greatest holdout of them all, Critic Bernard Berenson,,' who once dismissed their whole school as "worthless." Wrote Berenson in Milan's Corriere della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting...
...true life, e.g., Saroyan as Tom Sawyer wriggling his canny way past movie ushers for free, Saroyan as a struggling "unproven" artist peddling vegetables during the Depression, Saroyan as a proven artist holding a copy of his first book ("I was so excited I couldn't roll a Bull Durham cigarette"). ""Voyald," pontificates Saroyan to all who might be mystified by this title, "is a way of saying 'Void. Voyage and World...
...Socialist support. But last spring Austria's voters took a look at the immense reconstruction job done by private enterprise despite government hobbles and, for the first time, gave the Volkspartei a whopping vote, just one seat short of a parliamentary majority. It was a clear mandate to roll back government control...
Landing on the ground is often compared to jumping from some incredible distance such as 25 feet. If a roll is executed when contact is made, however, the shock is negligible...