Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, Leone Baxter, who were hired last February at $100,000 a year to give the medical profession's account of itself to the U.S. public. Whitaker & Baxter reported on what they had done since "the virus of socialized medicine had spread from decadent Europe and taken deep root here...
...their faith or their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even fought off Oliver Cromwell with swivel guns and muskets. It was no wonder, then, that when Charles, 2yth Lord of Walton, grafted a mad passion for wild life onto the old family root of religious fervor, the resulting bloom resembled a Jesuit seminary disguised as a bird sanctuary...
Europe's concern over America stems from the belief that it "would inevitably suffer" from a depression here, Flanders said last night. Such a recession, he commented, would help the Communist doctrine "take firmer root...
...deficit in depression times and pay it off in good times-in other words, balance the budget over a period of years. But if this was the policy, why was the U.S. running a deficit now? John Snyder's answer was at least partly political. The root of the trouble he said, was the tax cut by the Republican-controlled 80th Congress...
...church, a preacher shaking hands with her said, surprisingly: "Well, Miss Aylward, God is wanting you." Gladys pulled her hand away and ran down the churchyard path perplexed and a little angered. But back in her servants' quarters, she found that the preacher's words had taken root. She had lost her taste for parties and dancing, and life seemed suddenly meaningless and empty. When she finally spoke to a neighboring minister's wife about her strange new feelings, the lady declared: "My dear, the Lord's caught...