Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rice's vast 70,000-seat football stadium, for example, was built in 1950 "at cost" (for $3,295,000) by Houston's Brown & Root, the world's biggest construction company. Not surprisingly, the chairman of Rice's board of governors is George R. Brown, one of the company's millionaire partners. All that he and other donors ever asked was seats on the 50-yard line for the annual game with the University of Texas...
Most elected groups derive their prestige and power from some definite function which they alone perform, and this function is usually an administrative one. Well-defined administrative responsibility is the the root of House Committee power, for instance. In its sessions with the deans, the reorganization committee failed to discover one significant administrative duty at Harvard besides the Combined Charities drive which the Council could perform. Thus, the new Council will once again have to operate without a clear-cut sphere of power...
...morning of the Princeton game on November 8, 1926, the Lampoon published football issue featuring a cartoon of two pigs wallowing in the mud with the caption, "Come, brother, let us root for dear old Princeton...
...Romans, et al. Rose heps (not hips) can easily be made into beads, and rose petals can be rolled and pressed into beads. These were within the reach of the poorest congregations and easy to count. The church sanctified the rose after finding that it couldn't root...
There was a natural tendency in the free world to rejoice at this falling out, and perhaps to root for Russia's "soft" line to triumph over Red China's "hard." While it must and can exploit Communist rifts, the West is in danger of deluding itself on this issue, for "soft" and "hard" are relative. While Khrushchev may seem soft to Peking, he appears exceedingly hard elsewhere. These terms are, ultimately, only labels for different strategies aimed at the same end: the overthrow of capitalism, the triumph of Communism. That is a simple but important fact that...