Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hinting at one root of the trouble. Senator Vidal Diaz Muñoz last week shouted to the Mexican Senate: "Speculators must be given the death penalty...
Forming for some weeks now is a vigilante committee to root out the piano players by Chase dining hall once and for all. Dean Stafford heads the party, while Johnny Sutton and Walt Terry are in charge of ropes and halters...
...Tree Inclined. Gorer thinks that this infant training, and the repressed rebellion against it, are at the root of Japanese character-devotion to ritual, neatness and order; horror of dirt (except away from home, where dirt is a gesture of contempt for foreigners); unrestrained savagery against helpless peoples; preoccupation with "face" (which Gorer traces to Japanese parents' sensitiveness to ridicule of an ill-behaved child by outsiders). The Japanese, says Gorer, do not stick together well under attack; they readily turn against a fellow countryman placed in a ridiculous position by outsiders-a fact which, he thinks, accounts...
...Myth. Author Schwarzschild left Germany in 1933, moved from Paris to New York in 1940. At root, his thesis is simple: the Old Adam is, always has been and always will be uppermost in mankind. People have not improved much in the past, they are not improving now, and only fools assume the contrary. Woodrow Wilson and all those caught with him in the perfectionist dream of the Versailles years did assume the contrary, and led the world into chaos...
...example, when Marquis wheat was introduced, it stood off stem rusts but developed "head blighter scab"; Durham wheat overcame scab but succumbed to root rot. Kota, the next wheat hope, yielded to smut. Stakman, collaborating with the Department of Agriculture, has developed hardier & hardier wheat. But No. 56 has baffled him for 16 years...