Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mexico's President Echeverria in his "Message to America" [Oct. 11] calls for an end to American "open or clandestine intervention in the domestic life of other countries." At the same time he implores the U.S. to "resolve to use its enormous strength to root out the poverty of millions of people" on an international scale. Should we continue to pay the world's bills, while the recipients of our benefits spit in our face...
...Jets and Giants both had shots at 0-14 records there could be an element of perfection in the season, but as it stands now, there's nothing much to root about in the Big Apple...
...they were committed to each other with the same complete dedication that binds the Cavendishes of The Royal Family to one another, a devotion that draws its vitality from the same root that invigorates their work. No matter how much the profession of acting puts unreasonable demands upon their lives, and no matter how unreasonable are the demands that one Cavendish puts on another, the commitment is never broken. It may be questioned in the course of the play, as in the course of their lives, but ultimately it is the foundation upon which everything else is built...
...game feeling the way the other players will surely feel next year when they seek revenge for this year. "I think that we communicated that feeling to the freshmen," Dupuis said yesterday, but perhaps they hadn't. An uncharacteristic lack of fire was the reason Dupuis cited as the root of Saturday's defeat...
Fallows does not believe he has experienced any "violent" change in his world outlook since leaving Harvard. He contrasts himself to classmates who swung sharply to cynicism and professional school after their search to "save the world and root out evil" was frustrated. Nor has he gone the route of some of his classmates who, because "there was such a moral sickness in those days...ended up doing a lot less respectable things than they would have if they had gone to other places...