Word: roots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal survival is your war aim, then surrender is always an option. We will never know exactly when the decision took root in the contrarian lobes of Slobodan Milosevic's brain. But three weeks ago, his body language changed. For weeks, whenever he received Russian special envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Serbian leader would loll arrogantly back in his seat and hold forth, filling the room with his self-serving discourse. Since launching a diplomatic shuttle on April 14, Chernomyrdin had spent dozens of fruitless hours with Milosevic, most of them listening. Then on May 19, the Russian detected a subtle...
...Root for the local teams, even if you maintain your old allegiances. There is nothing like actually going to a stadium and watching a game that you care about...
Enter an NCAA Basketball pool. Then, root for the upsets, no matter what happens to your picks. The five bucks are worth the excitement of watching some podunk school celebrate its impossible defeat of College Basketball University...
...Eagle Scout, football recruit, devoted professional wrestling fan, former Undergraduate Council presidential candidate and definite Quad personality, Michael S. "Mike" Bush '99 has taken root in Cambridge and thrived while maintaining a laid-back attitude...
...While students battled the Communist label, the administration faced similar pressure from the government and the public. From 1952-3--the years of the McCarthy hearings--the University was to secretly but systematically root out junior Faculty members with Communist Party ties, as historians and journalists later discovered...