Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coffeehouses only on menus or signs on the walls. Neatly dressed college kids at Caf&233; Bizarre in Manhattan's Greenwich Village observe a sign that advertises POETS AND FOLK SWINGERS, order such delicatessen as the Suffering Bastard Sundae ($4.75 for four). Even Washington, D.C., the municipal square root, has Coffee 'n' Confusion, where manicured men in dark blue suits and ladies in tailored dresses stare at a sign that says WELCOME COOL GOOLS...
When von Brentano reaches Washington, Kennedy will have to be blunt. The immediate root of Bonn's difficulties is not Berlin, but Germany's refusal to assume its share of the West's financial burden. In return for the guarantees Kennedy is prepared to offer on Berlin, he must insist on systematic German contributions for economic assistance to underdeveloped countries. The United States is in for a prolonged recession, no matter what Erhardt says, and it is time for the Germans to pick up some of the West's checks...
...knows he's had it. When death is near, most societies require the presence of close relatives and a religious functionary. In Tibet, a lama must be there to pluck a hair of the dying man's head so that the soul can escape through the root-hole. In Turkey, a hoca (holy man) wets the dying man's throat with water-if a soul gets too thirsty as it climbs the hill of eternity, it will surely sell itself to the Devil for a cooling drink, In Yucatan, on the other hand, the Chan Kom tribesmen...
...root of NATO's new nuclear worries is Charles de Gaulle's determination to give France its own atomic striking force. After De Gaulle exploded two of his costly bombs in the Sahara, other NATO powers knew that the time was coming when West Germany-which already possesses the knowhow to make cheap, do-it-yourself A-bombs-might also insist on an independent atomic force. This is a prospect that even the majority of Germans regard without enthusiasm and which raises distinct hackles on other NATO necks, most notably Britain...
...supplied the plane's Allison turboprop engines, charging that the Electra was "negligently and carelessly planned, designed, manufactured and inspected." The suit was based on the 1959 crash of one of Braniff's Electras near Buffalo, Texas, which was blamed on a structural failure of the wing root-the same failure that knocked another Electra from...