Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard list Murphy added the Humphrey postulates-no feasts in his room, "just cheddar cheese, saltine crackers, diet root beer, Canadian Club and soda, 'wine of the country,' usually ten bottles of beer." Most of all, Murphy dreaded the "dragon's tail effect"-that frightening phenomenon in which a mere twitch at the tail's base can be come a paroxysm by the time it reaches the tip. By lingering an hour over schedule in one place, the Humphrey cavalcade can make a shambles of a whole day's tight schedule...
...Rowan: "Gee, Sandy, you sure get to the root of the problem...
...toward them. "They had been a damned minority for too long, a huge indigestible boulder in the voluminous, ruminating government gut of every cow-like Democratic Administration. Perhaps the WASP had to come to power in order that he grow up, in order that he take the old primitive root of his life-giving philosophy-which required every man to go through battles, if the world would live, and every woman to bear a child-yes, take that root off the high attic shelf of some Prudie Parsely of a witch-ancestor and plant it in the smashed glass...
...Michigan. As for his mix at the Dwan Gallery, Morris has priced it at $3 a pound. If no buyers show up, he could not care less. Right now what rivets him is the beauty of the butterscotch-colored grease-and the fact that a small plant has taken root in the earth...
...services for local law-enforcement agencies. And it is Humphrey who envisions the more prominent role for the Federal Government. To this, the Vice President adds strong and constant stress on the need for a wholehearted attack on the social and economic problems that he insists are at the root of lawlessness...