Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to go to Germany and have a look around. Kaiser Wilhelm, then in his finest military feather and almost ready for war, had done quite a little chanticleering about the then fashionable Yellow Peril, but there were many in Berlin who regarded London as the real root of all evil. Among them was a young philosopher named Karl Haushofer (now Adolf Hitler's theorist on geopolitics), who had met Yamashita in Japan in 1908 and now befriended him, publicly accoladed the Japanese as "the Prussians of the East," and sent Yamashita home fat with admiration for German militarism...
Frankie Baker, who says she shot Johnny in 1899, went to court in St. Louis to claim $250,000 damages for humiliation caused her by the movie made out of the famed blues song. Among her claims: there was no "root-a-toot-toot"-only a solitary shot...
...little later, he got the full revelation. On the left "great slabs of light among the showers" shone like the panes of a cathedral while he moved "gently forward, swaying to right and left like a loaded hay-wain," towards Arras, which stood at the root of a tree of flame. He flew over a plain stiff with guns, within range of every caliber, too low to bail out; at 2,000 feet "you drain the cannonade of a whole army." Nursing, from a memory of childhood, "the sense of sovereign protection," he was all but persuaded that each...
...create the Being which in turn creates us." It is one which, in centuries of mistaking the individual for Man, Western civilization has all but lost sight of: sacrifice. "Sacrifice is the stone contributed to the construction of the Being with which we identify ourselves. It is the root of true existence, and as such the sole source...
Started in the fall term, the plan for buying a defense bond a week by the janitors and maids of Eliot House has definitely taken root. James Mazza, assistant head janitor of Eliot House, authored the plan whereby 19 of the personnel take numbers, and contribute $1 a week towards a defense bond. The numbers are drawn to determine the order of receiving the weekly bond...