Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM ORDERING. When a child cries in the unfamiliar night, a mother's first impulse is to reassure the child that "everything is all right." Unless the statement is a lie, says Berger, at its root it expresses humanity's basic confidence in a reality that transcends the natural, often cruel world - "a universe that is ultimately in order and ultimately trust worthy...
...high. The board later dropped the rate to 5¼% , but last week, declaring a new assault on inflation, it lifted the rate again to 5½%. Whether the rise will have any rapid effect is debatable. The causes of inflation are deep, and it will take time to root them...
...move would almost certainly have prompted Congress to cut back some of his favorite spending programs. Later, faced with soaring federal deficits, Johnson changed his mind and urged a tax increase. But Congress dallied for 18 months-and thus lost an opportunity to halt inflation before it took deep root...
Then, at a press conference, Walker coldly demanded that Chicago's police department "root out and punish" the offending officers. "The blue curtain cannot be permitted to fall," he said. Walker blamed Daley for creating a climate of encouragement for police violence by ordering cops to "shoot to kill" arsonists after the city's ghetto riots last April. "When the police acted with restraint in April," Walker observed, "they were condemned. When they acted with violence, the city was silent...
...While Thoreau figured that "the more money, the less virtue," Schopenhauer argued that "money alone is absolutely good" and Samuel Johnson declared: "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." The New Testament holds that love of money is the root of all evil, but Mark Twain reversed that adage into "lack of money is the root of all evil." Socrates said: "Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money." Gertrude Stein remarked: "As a cousin of mine once said about money, money is always there...