Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard run--Won by Porter (T); second, tie for second between W. Goldberg (H), and Root (NE). Time...
...United States Armed Forces Institute course and regarded as harmless and valuable by a dozen large U.S. universities, was denounced as Communistic propaganda by Capitol Hill critics. Opponents of the Information and Education Division regard the current drive for budgetary reductions as an excellent opportunity to eliminate the program root and branch...
Over in Democratic headquarters there was another theory. Sharp, spry Jake Arvey, now the real boss of the failing Kelly machine, thought Root might be a decoy to be replaced by a stronger candidate as soon as the Democrats had committed themselves...
Unlike Stalin (né Dyugashvili), Trotsky (né Bronstein) and Molotov (né Scriabin), Zhdanov still has the name he was born with. Sharing a common root with the Russian verb zhdat, to wait or to expect, it is a good name for a man who was to ride quietly up the party escalator until he could expect (or at least hope for) succession to the biggest political job on earth. His father was a school inspector in Tver (now Kalinin), about 100 miles northwest of Moscow. Zhdanov had a better education (including German and French) than any present member...
...hundred million people in the world, 15 hundred million don't read at all, or read a script which doesn't use an alphabet?" he went on, in a tone of bitterness and shock which made it plain that his fight against illiteracy and incomplete communication is a root fact of his life...