Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...root of the problem is the ejido system of land reform, enshrined in Mexico's constitution of 1917. Individual peasants are given the use of small farms on government reserves or expropriated land, which they can transfer to their children but cannot sell or mortgage to obtain desperately needed bank loans. The result is the atomization of landholdings: most Mexican farms average 15 acres in size. Grinding poverty has led to peasant invasions of private land in some states, notably Tlaxcala and Oaxaca, and the government has been forced to use soldiers to drive out the squatters...
...root of the crisis goes all the way back to 1830, when the Catholic Flemings and Walloons broke away from Protestant Holland to form a new country. For more than a century, the prosperous Walloons dominated things from their industrial southern strongholds; the northern Flemings were the poor relations. After World War II the balance shifted. The population advantage moved to the Flemings-5,250,000 to 4,000,000-and industry flocked to the cheap labor supply of Flanders. Flemish nationalism flourished, and Flemings bitterly protested that, although Dutch and French had official parity, French was still the language...
...defection apparently followed months of patient persuasion by China's United Front Work Department, which has some of the same functions of the U.S.'s CIA, but at root may have been nothing more than the simple desire of an old man to return to the land of his birth. Said he: "I have returned home. After long years of absence, I am home again...
...established himself as the man who banked the robber barons, eventually scrambled to the top of a $100 million heap. Sarnoff also makes it clear, sometimes inadvertently, that Sage was a liar, a swindler, and a vivid illustration of that cliché about the desire for money being the root of all evil...
...Saigon. De Gaulle's only reported comment was to inquire loftily: "Qui est Ky?" It will take more than a few executions to cure the corruption that plagues Saigon and most other Asian capitals. Moreover, price controls on rice and other consumer goods do not get to the root of the problem: scarcities caused by Viet Cong control of roads between farming areas and cities...