Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this point the main course arrived, a plate heaped high with whole-wheat noodles, a vegetable tempora, fried lily-root, seaweed, and brown rice...
...Give the Federal Government more weapons with which to root out organized crime, which the President called "an entrenched national industry." One proposal, being drafted by the Justice Department, would grant the feds jurisdiction over "juice" (usurious loans), with interest rates some times ranging up to 20% a week, by which sharks and syndicates have milked and bankrupted laboring men and businesses. The Administration also urged passage of a bill sent to Congress by the Justice Department that would make arson a federal offense when the arsonist crosses a state line. This was aimed at racketeers, who, according...
...root of the widespread human uselessness that we mistakenly ascribe to automation, we must look into a vast cultural chasm that separates the successfully employed from the so called unemployable ... Although city dwellers, these "unemployables" have the characteristics of the preurban, prefactory villager of the agrarian age." Asbell's themes deserve thoughtful, thorough treatment. It is a shame they are developed with so little insight or discipline in The New Improved American...
...root of Harvard fencing problems is that it simply isn't considered a very important sport here, and it is impossible to compete with the New York schools, especially Columbia, which recruit the best fencers in the city every year...
Although the flesh was in Washington, nobody at Harvard Law School could ever doubt that Felix Frankfurter was really there, in Austin and Langdell, all the time. To start with, there were the portraits. In Langdell South, pictured in red robes, he looked oddly like a cardinal; in the Root Room, the Gardner Cox painting caught the very man. Etchings, photographs, a statue in the reading room--there was no escaping the likenesses...