Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giant tepee in Washington State's isolated Rock Creek canyon, some 200 braves, squaws and papooses of the Rock Creek and Flathead tribes wailed, danced, and thumped tom toms. The occasion: the tribes' annual Root Festival, when members thank the Great Spirit for causing the roots to ripen and the salmon to run. The tepee was electrically lighted; in the grove outside a soft-drink and balloon vendor set up his stand, did a profitable business...
...hills for 650 years; in a single day, 150 of them were burned alive. Things are not that bad now. But the 80,000-odd Protestants in postFascist Italy find their prospects for religious liberty looking worse instead of better. In the current Christian Century, Journalist Robert Root reports the situation under the pessimistic title, "Twilight of Religious Liberty...
...Wedding Rings. Meanwhile, Observer Root finds both Catholics and Protestants deeply concerned at another trend in postwar Italy-anti-clericalism...
Last week Chicago's voters gave their answer to this political naivete. In the biggest turnout in a Chicago city election, they rejected the G.O.P.'s Russell W. Root-a political nobody-and elected the Democrats' businessman candidate, Martin H. Kennelly, by a 273,354 majority. Kennelly's margin had been exceeded only once before in the city's history...
This week, eight days before election, the Chicago Times's straw poll showed Kennelly with 58% of the votes. Even the Tribune, Root's only supporter among newspapers, admitted grudgingly that Chicago had "two good candidates...