Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reducing hostilities since, like the oft-violated Jet truces, it would provide no assurance against local violence or massive Communist resupply and buildup in contested areas. Some allied military men nonetheless favor the idea, arguing that it would provide an ideal opportunity for the forces freed from combat to root out Viet Cong political agents in rural areas. The Viet Cong, of course, might see exactly the same opportunity to clean out government representatives...
...towns to overflowing; other thousands are packed into refugee camps that have neither enough food nor enough medicine. At Umuaka Camp near Port Harcourt, where 100 refugees have to share a 15-by-15-foot room, the daily ration consists of two cups of cassava, a starchy, sawdust-like root. When Wilde visited there, a child had just died-it was a year and a half old and weighed no more than eight pounds. Its mother was too weak to brush the flies off the body. "This is a children's war," said the Rev. Jack Finucane...
...Ludwig's most famous effort was Neuschwanstein, whose Romanesque-Moorish turrets bedeck Bavarian travel posters. The carvings and furnishings from its marble and mosaic chapel, study and bedroom display a gaunt tension that clearly foreshadows the Jugendstil 30 years before its prime. Sketches for carved colonnades incorporate fantastic root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaudí. Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France. From Linderhof come tutti-frutti-colored, specially commissioned Sèvres porcelain, embroidered screens inspired by Boucher...
After undue deliberation, the commission proposes several methods by which it hopes to root out the Spockian menace. Among them: a government sponsored book to replace Baby and Child Care and an attempt to get the kids to the negotiating table. If necessary, Rubble adds, "we'll sock it to 'em with a Small-Scale Enlightening Catastrophe...
...compensate traffic victims. There is a widespread feeling that this is not enough, and there are complaints about soaring rates, controversial policy cancellations and slow payment of claims. Some critics demand more federal regulation, along with a radical overhaul of the whole system. A Senate subcommittee has started a root-andbranch investigation of auto insurers; President Johnson has ordered the Department of Transportation to make a two-year probe...