Word: rooting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last 80-something years, it’s easy to understand how you might not be a big fan of the sport. But despite the complete hopelessness of the Cubs and White Sox, and the strange feeling of déjà vu I had when I started to root for the Red Sox, it’s hard not to appreciate baseball greatness when...
...seven days without being charged with a crime (the old limit was 48 hours). In special cases, the government can renew the detention orders for as long as six months. The Justice Department sought these powers partly because the Sept. 11 inquiry has shown how difficult it is to root out terrorists who hide as law-abiding citizens. But the policy of rounding up all suspects has irked some agents who generally prefer to keep targets free and under surveillance in the hope that they will yield more clues. "I've spent the past two weeks talking to many...
...make the events more inclusive for people who do not drink, Hawkins says the house committee makes sure to have plenty of soda, root beer and pizza...
...root of all the conflict is, of course, the voting public of Northern Ireland. Many people have their minds strongly set on being either Irish citizens or British citizens. The problem with the compromise is that as the government moves closer and closer to the middle, some people will inevitably feel alienated and gravitate more towards the extremes. With the IRA disarming, some hard-line republicans will switch their support to the Real IRA, but we can only hope that support for terrorism will be low following Sept...
...circle widens New York authorities have closed the hospital where Nguyen worked pending the results of environmental testing, and are interviewing anyone who visited the hospital after October 11th. Officials are retracing Nguyen's path over recent weeks, hoping to establish the root of her infection...