Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinary Negro politician who came to power in the waning days of the New Deal and has failed to arise above its out-dated rhetoric and piece-meal approach. Unlike many liberals whose orientation lies in the direction of past Democratic successes, Conyers has come to feel that the root of Democratic victories in the future will not be America's organized labor movement. In his own district, he is in continuos trouble in primary elections because of the opposition of the powerful United Automobile Workers local. The local leaders are understandably miffed at his preference for working outside...
...United States government negotiated, signed and ratified a total of 97 international agreements, most of them bilateral ones, providing for the settlement of international disputes by arbitration and conciliation. This enormous diplomatic effort occupied much of the time of such eminent Secretaries of State as John Hay, Elihu Root, William Jennings Bryan, and Henry Stimson. The measure of realism behind it may be judged from the fact that the number of disputes actually arbitrated in subsequent years in connection with these treaties was exactly two, and for these acts of arbitration, the treaties themselves were in no way necessary...
...logic is beginning to take root. A favorite story going the rounds at the Planned Parenthood conference tells of a 27-year-old woman who had just returned to the Chilean capital after a few years abroad. At a reunion of her convent school class, she looked around at 30 classmates, nearly all of them married, and got a "What's wrong with this picture?" reaction. None of them were pregnant, though most of them had been pregnant at the previous reunion five years before. "It suddenly dawned on me," she said, "that they were all on the pill...
...their purpose: "Sweep the great renegade of the working class onto the garbage heap!" and "Sweep the Khrushchev of China into the dustbin of history!" The man so described by these sanitation-minded youngsters, who also referred to him as "a paper tiger," the "big shot" and the "main root of revisionism," was Red China's President Liu Shao-chi, the chief foe of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The renewed attacks on Liu showed that Mao and his followers have not yet succeeded in winning the day; they also signaled a new phase...
...contest, Dennis Ribant is a Met who might make good, Elroy Face ... To understand why baseball will always be the national pastime, tune in the Pirates some night when they're down 3-0 going into the seventh and listen to announcer Bob Prince, the best in the business, root the Buccos on, single by single, as they...