Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This outlook has led Wilson to scoff at the many social reformers who stress the need to deal with the causes of crime, and he says, "I have yet to see a 'root cause' or to encounter a government program that has successfully attacked...
...view of the book's crisis: "An innocent man and a greedy woman had fornicated and Ruth could not endorse the illusions that made it seem more than that. They were exaggerators, both of them." The reader agrees, and is inclined to root for Ruth who wants to save her marriage. He is also inclined to reflect on what appear to be similar- ities between Jerry and Updike himself: that galloping insomnia, for instance. Like Updike's own recently divorced wife, Ruth is a Unitarian minister's daughter. Like Updike and his wife, Ruth and Richard once...
...there for the game. He confessed at the start that because of his father, and his childhood memories of attending Yale games in the Bowl (I think the last he remembers featured Albie Booth running wild against a horde of West Point plebes), that he would root for Yale. Chance, or luck, however, placed a particulalry vitriolic Yale fan behind us who insisted on labeling every member of the Harvard squad as a bum, without discriminating between one player or the next. Harvard misfortune produced more glee. My father endured through close to four quarters of the Yale partisanship behind...
...seen, though, if the committee will be able to investigate the military's own swollen private enterprises (among other things, the navy has a shipping company, the army a chain of service stations, and the air force its own airline). Cabinet-level corruption may also be hard to root...
...root cause of this nervousness is that international investors simply do not believe that the Labor government of Prime Minister James Callaghan can succeed in its economic game plan to save the pound-and the British economy. That plan calls for reducing the British inflation rate, currently 14.3% a year, by moderately cutting public spending and holding the nation's militant trade unions to a "social contract" under which they are supposed to limit wage increases to 4½% a year. The government's hope is to hang on through the winter. By spring, according to its script...