Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rosita's statuesque loveliness captured the "imagination" of the Dog Baker-weary multitude no end, and Lt. (jg) P. L. Geibel, the tactics man, was besieged with requests for new instructions on solving the gm line. At about that time, however, the capacitance was about to overflow its square root and everybody went home...
Through the Keyhole. Wrote the New York Post's Waverley Root, a "think" columnist: "The reason writers on foreign affairs are obliged to rely at times on speculation, deduction or secondary sources is that the State Department's penchant for secrecy and deception makes it impossible to check any really important facts with the Department. . . . An exception is sometimes made for certain docile writers, who are permitted access to files and documents ... in exchange for using that special information in defense of the Department against its critics...
Close on the train of Prince Henry, Luigi Amedo, Duke of the Abruzzi and Prince of Savoy, was granted the Doctor of Laws in 1907. His award was given in the same year that such American notables as James Bryee, Elihu Root, Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, and Woodrow Wilson were similarly honored by the University...
...letter says: "The lieutenant colonel of our battalion took the hill, but was captured with his men when ammunition ran out and he was cut off. He's a young officer, not over 28 years old, and in El Guettar I pulled out the root of his front tooth that had been hit by a shell fragment, as is reported in TIME...
...market place and in the great hall before the belching statue of Ba'al Hammon, whose appetite was for little babies, the reclining couch strategists of Carthago reasoned that the root of the failure lay in the refusal of the Hasdrubals, Hamilcars, Hannos and Himilcos to profit by the example of Daedalus. Imprisoned by Minos in the labyrinth in Crete, Daedalus had fixed wings to his shoulders with wax and flown to Sicily. Had the great Hannibal been home, instead of wandering about Italy hunting for legions to defeat, they assured one another, he would have known...