Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...root of this paradox of special excellence and overall shortfall is the very fact that is responsible for so much of the grumbling among today's patients: the decline of the general practitioner, both in status and number. Twenty years ago, there were 110,000 family doctors in the U.S.; today there are only 72,000. There were four general practitioners for every specialist in 1945, but today only one doctor in three is a G.P. According to the most recent figures, only 18% of the U.S.'s 8,000 fourth-year medical students professed an intention...
...Argentine novelist now living in Paris, has already evoked comparisons with Sterne, Proust and Joyce, and certainly Hopscotch's obfuscation is occasionally relieved by glints of unmistakable skill. Here and there a single sentence escapes the darkness with epigrammatic force: "All madness is a dream that has taken root...
WASHINGTON, April 11--Vice President Humphrey, six Cabinet officers, and two limousines full of Congressmen tried to root the Washington Senators to an opening-day victory over Cleveland today, and failed...
...three Oliver Wendell Homes Lectures, Gellhorn, a professor of Law at Columbia, said that the only major review boards now in existence -- in Philadelphia and in Rochester, N.Y.--have been totally ineffectual. They can censure or fire police officers, he said, but they are unable to get at the root of Law enforcement problems...
...another visit two years earlier. Warily she declines his first invitation, and he smugly vows he'll have her; on the second evening he does. In the process, Director Lindgren sketches a tender, funny and lusty nature study of a love match about to bloom, slowly taking root in an attraction that turns out to be considerably more than sin-deep...