Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have Harvard and Yale win the meet, but for that to happen, someone will probably have to beat Mullin. And no one who has seen him drive toward the finish line, straining to the very limits of his endurance but still pushing himself onward, will over be able to root against...
...point at which their lift is applied is only slightly shifted. Part of each wingtip swings into its wing root and ceases to produce lift. The part still exposed also loses lift because the airstream, slanting over it diagonally, is less disturbed by its thickness. Only the fixed wing roots do not change. When the airplane reaches top speed, with wings folded far back, the wide wing roots take over much of the lifting...
...hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns in search of food...
...defeat the demons now within him too. He builds a barricade in the room where he hears Mother Joan's confessions. But he succumbs again, and his own lights having failed, seeks the advice of a rabbi. The rabbi speaks in fearful axioms. "Love is at the root of everything on earth," he tells the priest. "You are me and I am you." The remark might be an admission of equal incomprehension-both parts are played by the same actor. In the end, the priest axes to death two grooms at a neighboring inn, somehow taking upon himself, through...
...Third baseman Mike Drummey lands the IEBL in hitting. Shortstop Dave Morse and second baseman Terry Bartole each got four hits against MIT and first such or Phil is the club's leading slugger. Dik Diehl, the catcher, had a home run against Navy that tultiated a 10-3 root...