Word: root
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deal, draping the cape of Franklin Roosevelt over his own presidency by reciting the Administration's record on Medicare, education, the war on poverty, and social security benefits. The Great Society, said Johnson-invoking a term that has been notably missing from recent presidential pronouncements-is "taking root. It is thrusting up; it is reaching out to banish need and to bring new hope into millions upon millions of lives...
...third of the state's 1,800 schools were closed and 500,000 children went untaught. The strike culminated an angry year-long dispute over school finances between flamboyant Governor Claude Kirk and militant members of the Florida Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association. The root of the trouble goes back to Kirk's 1966 election campaign, in which he promised to produce something of a political miracle: to hold state taxes steady and at the same time make Florida "first in the nation in education." State educators dismissed the incompatible promises as idle oratory...
...civil war" on local Viet Minh and Communist infiltrators from Thailand, who are raising havoc in Battambang province, and accused the Communists of tying up with the subversive Thai Patriotic Front to cause trouble. Normally a soft-pedaler of anti-Communist alarm, Sihanouk finally seems to have, recognized the root of much of his trouble-at least until he changes his mind again. Already besieged by North Vietnamese troops who use his country as sanctuary, he now faces a second Communist threat. The Prince attacked the "global strategy of Asian Communism," crying: "We are being driven into...
...Britain in such large numbers that Britain's white population, including the large population of Irish immigrants, is both alarmed and seething with resentment. Warned the London Daily Mail: "The horrors of the riots in Newark and Detroit may seem remote, but all the causes have already taken root here...
Lichtheim's comments on German history, then, will serve as a nice demonstration of his fundamental idealism. "The basic fact about German history since the eighteenth century," we are told, "has been the failure of the Enlightenment to take root." Why did it fail to thrive? In an essay entitled "The European Civil War," we learn that "national attitudes in the three countries [France, Germany and Italy] were different, and that the difference went back to the impact of the French Revolution." This is some help, but not much, for we now want to know what factors determined the reception...