Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under way to tidy up the practice of gardening, make it as simple and antiseptic as picture taking. Begonias now come ready to bloom in individual paperboard containers, geraniums can be bought in plastic bedding boxes that look like oversized ice trays. Both the plant and its cube-shaped root cluster can simply be pulled out of the pots, plopped into the ground. Rose bushes arrive in brand-new aluminum foil containers with plastic bottoms; the backyard gardener simply snaps off the plastic bottom, lowers the container into the ground without ever soiling his hands. Because rose roots grow straight...
Watson said that he wears his hair professional reasons. He is the manager a five man rock 'n' roll band called "The Root of Evil...
...four possible routes prominently mentioned, all will wreak havoc. Two variations down Brookline and Elm Streets near Central Square will up-root between 3000 and 5000 families and claim several thousand jobs. One alignment further East, down Portland and Albany Streets on the fringe of M.I.T.'s campus, will take from 2300 to 5000 jobs (depending on whose figures you believe). And a third possible route, using the right-of-way along railroad tracks running through part of M.I.T.'s campus, will take a significant number of laboratories as well as claiming more than a thousand jobs and several hundred...
...sides of a global pact must agree that global warfare is an unsatisfactory way to solving the conflict, a truce line must be rigidly drawn, both sides must cooperate in maintaining the truce line. And, given the first three conditions, common interests between the two sides will gradually take root...
...root of much of the New Snobbery, it seems to me, lies in a desire to separate American society neatly into the Oppressed and the Oppressors. This is not particularly difficult, because certain groups, Negroes for example, are by any standards oppressed. The New Snob then consigns most other groups to the ranks of the Oppressors; hence Irish-Americans, a large percentage of whom are casual bigots, are Oppressors, and that is all there...