Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists' desperate hope is to provoke Venezuela's powerful military into a coup, canceling the elections. So far, at least, the soldiers have kept both their temper and their loyalty to Betancourt. Acting on presidential orders, small squads of troops moved into the city to root out F.A.L.N. snipers; police details prodded merchants into raising their shutters, and security agents rounded up every leftist they could find. By week's end more than 200 were in prison; 25 people were dead, another 90 wounded...
...root of the controversy is the extreme sensitivity of Reform Jews to criticisms by Orthodox Jews that Reform Judaism is just a steppingstone to Christianity. But Eisendrath denied he had any such trade-off in mind, nor would his re-examination relate to anything more than "the man Jesus, not to Christ, his Messiah-ship...
...SCULPTORS GUILD-Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, pear wood, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through...
...root of the new policy is an outmoded concept of the Soviet bloc as a monolithic political entity, a concept the State Department abandoned years ago. By imposing travel restrictions on these five countries, the U.S. implies that they are all alike and must be treated as we treat the Soviet Union. In the process, American diplomacy loses a valuable tool which might have been used to help dislodge the Eastern European countries from each other and from the Russians...
Some girls think that the mental emptiness caused by indecision or procrastination lies at the root of the problem. Just as their thoughts are paralyzed, so their hands become paralyzed in a mechanical gesture from plate to mouth. Once the boyfriend has been broken up with or snared, the paper begun, the field of concentration chosen, or the destination reached, food becomes unnecessary...