Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, by a robust 438-to-109 vote, Curran pushed through a substitute -a resolution calling on all N.M.U. members to "take every step to root [Communists] out of our union completely." Then the delegates upheld the expulsion of five of the N.M.U.'s noisiest left-wing troublemakers. Among them: ex-Vice President Joe Stack and onetime National Secretary Ferdinand Smith, whom the U.S. is trying to deport as an alien...
Instead of tuning in the networks' "outstanding" games of the week, most U.S. football fans would much rather listen to local broadcasts so they can root for their favorite teams...
...shabby little church stood just off a dirt road four miles southeast of rural Pimento, Ind. Rain dripped through the ceiling, and the wind worried at the rags and papers stuffed into broken window panes. Squirrels scuttled in & out of the root, and the lights no longer worked. For the ten or 15 oldsters in their 703 or beyond who persisted in coming to worship at the Methodist Church's down-at-heel Fletcher Chapel, there was a plain choice: fix up or give up. That was four years...
...girl, Lydia had been a fierce Abolitionist, and she had organized a society to debate slavery and female suffrage. Her response to the new challenge: bottling and selling a home medicine she had been using for years. Ingredients: a blend of herbs, including true-unicorn and pleurisy root, steeped and macerated in an 18% alcohol base (about as potent as sherry). Taste: mildly bitter...
...objects to the old "machine-for-living" slogan. "I try to make a house like a flower pot, in which you can root something and out of which family life will bloom," he tells his clients. "It's not so much a question of ornamenting the flower pot as of fabricating it in such a way that something healthy and beautiful can grow in and out of it. The overall design should be simple, but it depends on neat execution. I want every house I build to be a stepping stone to the future, and modern architecture gets...