Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belongs to the buttercup family) and cannot be counted on to bloom at Christmas. As a result of whooped-up claims, thousands of home gardeners plant Elberta peach trees, one of the least rewarding varieties. Another pitfall is the failure of many catalogues to describe the variety of root stock on which a dwarf apple tree is grafted (it will not be a true dwarf if it is not rooted on imported English Mailing stock), or to mention how many times an evergreen has been transplanted (it develops a more vigorous root system by being lifted out of the earth...
...there was no backing out now. What was more, Sukarno said, Indonesia wanted no more aid from U.N. agencies-a remark that must have stirred the bellies of his underfed audience. "What is UNICEF?" cried Sukarno. "It is powdered milk. I prefer to eat cassava [a flour-yielding root]. FAO sends experts who know nothing about Indonesia's agriculture. I say to them, To hell with your...
Attitude of Insularity. What are the cords that hold back what was once one of the world's most powerful economies -and now is one of its most troubled? There are no great secrets about the failure of the British economy to meet its challenges: its root troubles lie in listless management, the wasteful use of labor, small-scale and inefficient production and indifferent salesmanship. At the heart of these manifestations is less of an inherent economic weakness than a national attitude of insularity, a stubborn refusal from top to bottom to believe that Britain's standard...
...years of some of its best scientific talent. British managers also tend to look down their noses at the self-made man and the aggressive merchant. "A tremendous amount of work has to be done," in the opinion of Sir George Briggs, deputy chairman of Hawker Siddeley Industries, "to root out the prejudice that trade...
...mind-that seven inches of in ner space between the root of the nose and the occiput- our prized possession; its study on every level is most important," says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen. The newest and most controversial way of carrying on that most important study is with the aid of drugs that produce hallucinations or illusions. But the responsible hopes raised by serious and cautious research have been matched by wildly visionary claims. Irresponsible misuse of the drugs has led to both scares and scandals...