Word: root
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between the green tip and the root...
...greater importance, however, is a more elementary question which both the FCAS and the UAC must consider: why the Faculty has not allowed the team to play in the past two tournaments. This is basic to an issue now three years old, and, because it goes right to the root o the upcoming and past decisions, certainly it must not be ignored. Only after we can answer this question can we expect to answer to answer the first...
...only a seventh edition of the daily press. Fiercely attacked by clergymen in its formative years-they considered it a Mammon-like rival of the pulpit-it did not succeed in establishing itself until the Civil War generated a ravenous public appetite for news and gave it permanent root. But not until Joseph Pulitzer, already the successful publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, arrived in New York in 1883 did the Sunday paper begin sprouting into the giant it is today. With sensational features, comic strips, four-color illustrations and special-interest supplements, Pulitzer's Sunday World face...
...Europe, no self-respecting crossroads is without its annual film festival, but in the U.S. the idea has taken root only in San Francisco. Last week the top prize at San Francisco's Fifth Annual International Film Festival went to Animas Trujano, a Mexican picture about a slow-witted Zapotec Indian, played, curiously enough, by Japan's Toshiro Mifune. But -as is customary at film festivals-the most talked-about film in town was not the big winner. It was a cartoon from Communist Yugoslavia called Ersatz...
...Dock cited three of his own aunts who had lived happily and usefully until they were 70, then began to suffer the afflictions of age. Two took to port wine and gloated that they did not need drugs, while the third took to valerian (a root drug laced with alcohol) and gloated that she did not need wine. All three enjoyed life more (one to the age of 99) and became easier to get along with. "Ever since seeing this," said Dr. Dock, "I have felt that what is needed in retreats for ailing or aged people, and even...