Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know, some folks really toss jibes at his throwing. Let me tell you. This boy can toss bullets." -- Jim Root, University of New Hampshire coach...
from the cube root of all in varying context...
...differ completely in our attitudes toward curbing crime by dealing with its root causes. Mr. Nixon feels that the relationship between poverty and crime is exaggerated, that "if the conviction rate were doubled in this country, it would do more to eliminate crime than a quadrapuling of the funds of any governmental war on poverty"; and that "the wave of lawlessness is due to the example of intellectuals and the growing disrespect of the young." Moreover, Mr. Nixon has used the Supreme Court and the Attorney General as scapegoats...
...white court which would protect the interests of white America in the maintenance of stable institutions." The justices, he said, "considered the potential damage to white Americans resulting from the diminution of privilege as more critical than continued damage to the underprivileged." They have now ordered segregation plucked out "root and branch." But 14 years after the Brown decision, said Steel, only about 15% of the black children in the South attend integrated schools...
Long ago, on Sunday afternoons, before TV antennas took root on America's rooftops, before Y. A. Tittle or Bart Starr or Jimmy Brown could create their instant mythology for the eyes of millions, a man often communed with his family or made a pilgrimage to nature to find solace for his workaday existence. Sometimes he went to a saloon or a ballpark. But now, each autumn Sunday, he turns to the TV set, and enjoys the drunken exhilaration of victories by Chargers, or Giants, or Packers. It is there, says First-Novelist Frederick Exley, 38, that contemporary...