Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...root of the tension between the Air Force and the colleges, said President Millett, is a continuing uncertainty over the mission of the A.F.R.O.T.C. program. Over the past 15 years, the Air Force has shifted the goal from training men to serve for short terms in reserve units to recruiting and educating active-duty officers on a long-term career basis. This has been done, charged Millett, without the Air Force's defining a new mission for its college R.O.T.C. units. Said he: "It is not unfair to say that the administrations of many colleges and universities sense...
...partisan controversy IS unbecoming as Professors Elliott and Leach remind us. Have they not, however, mistaken the root of the problem? The difficulty is not that we award our honors to the living, but that we announce the awards. Let us continue to sort the great from the near-great, but let us announce our verdict fifty years later...
Then De Gaulle, his manner calm and impersonal, moved on to more delicate ground: "No doubt Soviet Russia, in spite of having aided Communism to take root in China, recognizes that nothing can change the fact that Russia is a white European nation . . . face to face with the yellow masses of China, numberless and impoverished, indestructible and ambitious-a people that is building through trial and hardship a power that cannot be measured and that is already eying the open spaces over which it must one day spread...
...with the Japanese army, during the Korean war commanded South Korea's crack Capitol Division, and won his nickname from admiring U.S. General James Van Fleet. But the offensive he launched last February has proved in many ways the most arduous of his career. His mission: to root out wholesale pilferage and embezzlement in the 650,000-man Korean army, which has reached so enthusiastic a pitch that an irate U.S. Defense Department report said that open black-marketeering in "virtually every commodity required to support a military machine"-short of tanks and artillery-was "beyond description...
...Amazon's new awakening is beset with old problems. Tennessean Ronald Richardson, now 46, who after World War II duty in Belém stayed on to set up a lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...