Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the two-hour period was up each day, those still waiting had to be dispersed by guards; the lucky ones hauled their 60-lb. sacks of cartwheels off to root through them for valuable Morgans. How many-if any-of them turned up is still unknown. But after all, the collectors couldn't lose-even if there was not a Morgan or other rarity in the lot. All they had to do was turn their bag in to the nearest bank and get their handy paper money back. And this, to the Treasury's distress, was just...
...shall beat their swords into plowshares," 79% flunked "Many are called, but few are chosen," 84% flunked "The truth shall make you free," 84% flunked "A soft answer turneth away wrath," 88% flunked "Pride goeth before a fall," and a full 93% flunked "The love of money is the root of all evil." Going beyond quiz questions, Warshaw found students missing the whole Biblical point of secular literature-for example, the implication of the final scene in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, when the old man collapses with his wounded hands outstretched, as in crucifixion...
...natural progesterone secreted in women's glands is not very potent when taken by mouth. But since 1951, laboratory experts have been making chemically related substances, now known as progestins, from such unlikely raw materials as the root of the Mexican giant yam. Some of these synthetics are far more potent than natural progesterone-at least for preventing ovulation. The two best known are norethynodrel, the main ingredient in Enovid, and norethindrone, used in the other contraceptive pills now marketed in the U.S. and by various manufacturers around the world...
Christian unity can be achieved only if it "takes root in the local communi ties," says Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, the new president of the National Council of Churches. The roots are already sprouting. Ecumenism - until recently the private dream of theologians and the occasional public practice of rank ing clergymen - has become a spirit-changing factor in the church life of every U.S. community. Every day more laymen join in a dialogue once reserved for ministers, and as one Washington, D.C., pastor puts it, "some of the best discussions take place in car pools and Laundromats." The example...
...night. I get the impression that the land is cursed and suffering, groaning under the awful weight of history's sins. I can understand what Faulkner meant: it must be loved or hated...or both. It's hard to imagine how any music but the blues could have taken root in the black soil around...