Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knowledge that a minimum of 5,000,000 ex-servicemen are unorganized, politically impressionable, socially semi-literate, and that we are due for hard times when demagogues may make hay. You are reminded that the fanatics serve as the fall guys of this country's fascism; that the root of the evil lies in the transmission belt from rabble-rouser to Big Money, "the link between the dirty shirts and the stuffed shirts...
Language is the root and the starting place, though, and approximately one-half of the first year of study is devoted to learning the immense Chinese language. When the theory of this language is once mastered, the biggest stumbling block is removed; from then of facility comes with practice and only a quarter of the second year's work consists of language study...
...Edward A. Strecker, an expert who helped in the medical phase of General Marshall's inquiry, does. In most cases, says he, it was Mother. In a companion book to General Cooke's (Their Mothers' Sons; Lippincott; $2.75), Dr. Strecker argues that "smother love" was the root of the psychoneurotics' trouble...
...Elis, dammit," replied the Sage, "but Levi things to me. It won't take a Kirk of fate to make me Root or Booe this afternoon...
Engaged. Daphne Dolores Mercedes Skouras, 24, daughter of cinema tycoon (20th Century-Fox) Spyros Skouras; and Oren Root Jr., 35, Manhattan lawyer, grandnephew of the late great Elihu Root, organizer of the clubs that won Wendell Willkie the Republican presidential nomination...