Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hungry Are You Cold from being just another of the many cloudy apologias for the rebel cult of Depression-born, war-torn youths who cannot come to terms with a world they think their parents botched. But so determined and savage is the heroine that the reader cannot really root for her. He is left only with a slightly subversive feeling of compassion for the baffled and sputtering villain of the piece, Papa the martinet...
...root of Chang's trouble lay the division of his own Democratic Party into "old" and "new" factions. Furious at his failure to win the premiership away from Chang. Old Democratic Leader Kim Do Yun declared that any member of his faction who joined Chang's Cabinet would be considered a turncoat Result was that although Chang offered Cabinet jobs to five Old Democrats, only one-Transportation Minister Chung Hun Joo-accepted...
...Frenchman of Polish extraction named Serge Michel. Michel, until recently an aide to Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, is a radio and press "expert" who, in between polishing up Lumumba's speeches, last week was broadcasting appeals to the citizens of Leopoldville to spy on their neighbors and root out "saboteurs...
Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Workshop at Tufts University. Holmes is also president of the New England Poetry Club. His most recent book, Writing Poetry was published in June. His other books include Address to the Living Map of My Country, The Double Root and several shorter collections. Holmes has also published in Poetry Harper's Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Nation Kenyon Review, and other periodicals...
...silence in the room when he was finished, remembers Raborn, "was like the silence after a talk by an evangelist. It was the silence before you heard the shuffle on the sawdust." Lockheed Vice President L. E. Root turned to his boss, Bob Gross, and whispered something, the sibilants resounding across the quiet room. When Root was finished. Bob Gross walked to the blackboard and wrote "Lockheed." General Electric's Ralph Cordiner stood up and said: "Give us the money and stay out of our hair." Everyone else simply nodded. The next day a Marine courier arrived...