Word: roote
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...more reasonable and plausible version of the shock ploy. After hymning the Democratic record under such great Presidents as Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Humphrey announces that it is indeed time for a change-a Democratic change. He analyzes the nation's discontents, proposes root-and-branch cures, and submits a list of priorities based on de-escalating a war that, however noble its original aims, has become irrelevant to the more pressing needs of a divided America. The line would go something like this: "To recognize past imperfections, my friends and fellow Americans...
...essentially free of foreign-derived words, as is the entire book. One of the prisoner-scientists in The First Circle insists on attempting what he calls "plain speech," in which non-Russian words are banished, even if puzzling archaisms must be substituted. For example, he replaces the Latin-root word kapitalizm with the old Russian word for usury, tolstosumstvo (literally, "moneybaggism"). Solzhenitsyn himself has proposed that Russian be purified in this way. His strongly held views on language not only contribute great power and control to his writing but are also typical of other attitudes that pervade his work...
Northeastern, with 17,000 day students and a total enrollment of 40,000, has been rapidly expanding in the last few years. It has also been changing from a commuter to a residential college, and this is the root of much of the student dissatisfaction...
...Root Problems. Viet Nam overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
...former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, now chairman of the Urban Coalition. "If you are not filled with foreboding, you don't understand your time," Gardner declared. He compared the leaders of the developed nations to "old men bickering in a collapsing house," ignoring "the root problems of this troubled world." Despite his reproachful words, Gardner received a standing ovation-just three weeks after the Republican Platform Committee in Miami Beach had given him a similarly warm reception...