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Word: rootes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homeland.' But we can't do this any more because now they could respond: 'Get lost. Your homeland will go at the same time.' Almost immediately after invading, moreover, Soviet forces could be hugging West German cities. Would NATO dare use tactical nuclear weapons to root them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Can the U.S. Defend Itself? | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...feels that doctors should stop virtually all lying to patients, universities should root out fraudulent and deceptive research, and government officials should be expected to stick to the truth. Her point: the public is now so cynical about being lied to that only extraordinary efforts to avoid lying will restore a feeling of trust. Or, as Mark Twain once observed, "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Ground Rules for Telling Lies | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...allowed-the Celts might have devised it. But when John Rossetti made a chair, Percival destroyed it. Says he: "It was too early to have thought up such a thing." Martin Elphick, a doctor from Kent, pursued primitive medicine, treating flu with violet and willow bark, headaches with valerian root, and asthma with deadly nightshade. The Iron Agers developed their own dyes, appletree bark for yellow, the yew tree for orange, lichens for brown and green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Reliving the Iron Age in Britain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Seale, who recently founded a Congressional lobbying group to represent poor people, said Congress must create "community-controlled economic programs that will root the poor and low-incomed into the economic structure of this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seale Advocates Pragmatism To Solve Problems of the Poor | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...much more than that, and The Stranger demonstrates his range of abilities. The experimentation of side two is still a bit rough, but Joel should not abandon his experiments. Along with the attempts at diverse types of music, Joel might do well to return with some instrumentals like "Root Beer Rag" and "The Mexican Connection," the two best cuts from Streetlife Serenade...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: More Than Just a Piano Player | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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