Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better to have a plot and no need for it than to need it and not have one." He sneered at a claim of California winegrowers that they have never had a poor vintage year. He declaimed: "The selling of sex [in the U.S.] is at the root of the trouble." But at evening's end, for all his wit, Debater Potter was over-Wellesed by a Union members' vote of 485 to 309, defeating the motion, vulgar hands across the sea and all that...
...might well be San Pascual's last victory. Buttressed by Spanish priests who insist on orthodox Catholicism, Guatemala's hierarchy is finally determined to root out paganism and do away with the God of the Hills, the God of the Plains, and even that leering old devil who posed as a saint, Maxim...
...Declaring themselves disgusted with the "hoodlum influence" in boxing, California's State Athletic Commission pulled out of the National Boxing Association, threatened to set up an independent boxing association of NBA dissidents with authority enough to root out underworld figures...
...possible to trace a definite pattern in this renewed attack on poverty. In the earlier part of the period that he examined, donors gave outright to the relief of the poor. As time passed, they began more and more to set up programs of massive endowment to root out the causes of poverty. They provided for wider educational opportunities, according to Jordan, and they arranged apprenticeship schemes and systematized the buildings and maintenance of hospitals and almshouses...
Changes in the root portion of the teeth, said Nalbandian, appear to be the most biological age change...