Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Root of present difficulties is in the phrase insisted on by the British Cabinet -"with due respect for their existing obligations." The phrase, as New York Timesman. James B. Reston wrote: ". . . has troubled those officials who believe that a real economic peace can be obtained only if all the powerful nations of the world are prepared to reconsider their 'existing obligations...
Coach Reggie Root's boys of Blue look slightly stronger on paper, but due to the mutual weakness in pass defense of both teams, it looks like anybody's ball game...
...nurse's question made Rebecca West remember that the word "idiot" comes from a Greek root meaning a private person, and that idiocy is a "female defect" of women intent on leading their own lives...
Just beginning to take root in colleges throughout the country, "France Forever" is springing up locally at Radcliffe and Wellesley as well as at Harvard...
...From a Greek root, meaning one who sheds...