Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Correspondent Armstrong was hired as managing editor of the quarterly's two-man staff. (The other staffer was editor and onetime Harvard history professor Archibald Cary Coolidge.) From the start. Foreign Affairs set a standard for excellence that has not found a challenger. In the first issue. Elihu Root...
When the bark is stripped off, the wood bleeds blood-red sap that enforces the symbolism. The felled trunks, each with a wide buttress root attached, are carried into the village, where the women greet them with rejoicing as if they were enemy corpses. The women, says Dr. Gerbrands, are more deeply religious than...
...mangrove trunks are taken to carvers who shape them into fantastic "ancestor poles." Each pole generally has two male figures, one standing on the other's head. The buttress root serves the upper figure as a gigantic, openwork phallic symbol. In a final climactic ceremony, the ancestor poles are set up near the men's house, and the warriors stage a fierce mock battle followed by a wild dance in which the women attack...
...exciting. The Turks seemed politely receptive. If Cyprus' Makarios was impressed, he managed to conceal his feelings. Greece will certainly continue to be unhappy about the U.S. reluctance to bear gifts. But some time, maybe some time, the seeds of understanding that Lyndon Johnson planted may take productive root. In any event, it is worth...
...fall schedule, but the straw that broke the Tiger's back had come from students rather than administration. On the morning of the 1926 game the then-mighty Harvard Lampoon published a special issue with a drawing of two pigs wallowing in the mud, proclaiming "Come, brother, let us root for dear old Princeton." And to cap it off, at half time the 'Poonies put out a fake CRIMSON headlined "BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD." There was an explanatory crossline: "HELD BREATH TOO LONG...