Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts also found serious flaws in the work of Allied intelligence-primarily a failure to grasp the significance of the vast, interlocking chemical-oil-rubber-explosives complex, which flourished from a single, synthetic root...
...Pines of Honduras" had taken root. Hondurans circulated by the hundreds mimeographed translations of TIME'S story (Jan. 21) about a sprig of conifer as the emblem of democratic resistance to Dictator Carias' regime. Cariasistas, deciding that something had to be done, called on Congress to pick a national flower. Congress, with nothing better to do, mooted the matter for a week, then put it up to Department Governors. The Governors asked their wives. Last week they chose the non-native rose (brought to Central America by the Spaniards...
Iowa's famed tall corn is getting too big for its roots. Now some lowans would like to breed back into U.S. corn the qualities which were sacrificed for bumper size and bumper production. They would like to reinvigorate corn with greater root strength and resistance to heat, drought, insects and disease...
...showed that American students just weren't thinking about those things. It wasn't their fault, really. They were younger than peacetime undergraduates; the faculty, especially that part of it which was closest to the students and which gave stimulation to so many of them, suffered shattering losses. The root of the problem, however, can be found in the instability and acceleration that began with the drafting of 18-year-olds...
...root of their bitterness: "A caste system inherited from Frederick the Great of Prussia and the 18th-Century British Navy [which] is hardly appropriate to the U.S.," a caste system "connoted by the words 'enlisted' and 'commissioned...