Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zimmermann insists that a unionized army would be as strong as any other. As in any civil servants' union, he explained, it would be forbidden to strike. Indeed, its advocates argue the unionization of the army is a healthy sign that democracy has taken root. But what happens if war breaks out during the annual negotiations for a new contract? A 60-day cooling-off period? In officers' mess halls throughout West Germany, the whole idea still produces shudders of horror. After all, the only other unionized armies in Europe are those of Austria and Scandinavia...
...spirit expounded in Chairman Mao's writings." They helped him haul his wares and "did minor repairs in the public toilets." Old Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with filth, these sanitation workers had the loftiest and purest souls...
...their copra and sugar, rice and rubber. India, Pakistan and Burma have shown no interest in the hustle and bustle around them. Indonesia, still in the shakedown stage after its anti-Communist upheaval, is only warily beginning to participate. Cambodia stands aloof, although Premier Sihanouk, who likes to root for the winning team, has lately taken steps to bleach some of the pro-Peking coloration out of his government...
Such "signature music" is based on the Madison Avenue conviction that the name of a product can root itself in the subconscious more readily if it is accompanied by an instantly identifiable musical trademark. Jingles are fine for the one-minute spiel, but for the short, hard pitch, signature music is the thing. Thus Siday's eight-note bleeper, played above a sizzling, highballing beat, gets the message across even without the slogan, "You're ahead in a Ford all the way"; his seven-note arrangement for the litany, "You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse...
...better to stop agitating and consolidate what he has won. At the same time, much of the new black militancy is a result of frustration over what many Negroes consider their snail's pace of progress. Beneath the passion and the rhetoric, these two opposing views pose a root question about the state of the Negro in the U.S. today: just what advances have-and have not-been made by the nation's 21 million Negroes...