Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...below capacity despite a five-year backlog of munitions orders. Instead of the patriotic hustle & bustle which throbs in most defense-plant towns, Akron was a gigantic time bomb, relentlessly, awesomely ticking. Over the place hung a pall of suspicion, bitterness, hatred. Management and labor wrangled, sparred and fought. Root of the trouble is the six-hour day started by management during the depression, now grimly held by the union as a labor "asset...
...root of the trouble is a difference of medical opinion. There are many anesthetics, each with its pros & cons, from which a surgeon may choose. For abdominal operations, for example, some surgeons prefer a spinal anesthetic. Other surgeons avoid spinals because they entail a somewhat greater risk of complications (e.g., occasional paralyses, persistent headaches and other late effects) than anesthetic gases. Many patients prefer the new rectal anesthetics because they leave none of the aftereffects which ether usually produces. Some doctors contend that nearly all the unpleasant effects of ether (vomiting, nausea, etc.) can be avoided if the anesthetist...
Above all, don't get the idea that Freshmen are to be seen and not heard. That concept has never taken very deep root around the Square and would be especially folish now. Neither Faculty nor undergraduates have ever seen a term quite like this before, and most of them are just as much...
Vaguely people feel that this sudden shift is somehow due to the war, to a longing to escape through music from realities that have become so harsh and drab, to a revived sense of the nearness of death which lies at the root of the appreciation as well as the creation of great music. But whatever the reasons for the change, the facts were startling enough...
...root of the trouble lies General DeWitt's tight-tongued refusal to make his plan public. The trouble seemed to lie in the Army's tell-the-people-nothing attitude...