Word: rooter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the half-time, activity stops on the field but not in the cheering sections. Each rooter removes some colored cards tacked to his seat, and card stunts begin. Card stunts picture beautiful scenes and humorous scenes, spell out words--anything the ingenious minds of the rally committee can think...
...disheartened now. When the ordinary rooter squeces into his seat just before the kick off, he will be hoping quietly that this will be the season when everything goes right. There are some new plays and players, a new coach, and most important of all, a new football year, in which, as the poet said, anything can happen...
...candidates' paths met at Cascade Locks, where Mayor Russel Nichols, a Dewey rooter, had arranged a turnout for his man. But Dewey arrived to find that Harold Stassen had boldly stolen his meeting. Stassen was busily autographing campaign leaflets. Newsreel cameramen, hoping for shots of the candidates together, had backed a truck across the road to make sure that Dewey would stop...
Then gadget-minded Bob invented a weapon to help him in his never ending battle to keep the mesquite trees from crowding out the grass on the range. This was a "tree dozer," an oversize tractor with a steel hand to snatch out mesquite. He supplemented this with a "rooter plow" that lifted up a strip of land, killed the mesquite roots and dropped it back with the grass undisturbed. He then turned his hand to grass. Bob's father had brought in South African Rhodes grass. Bob took seed from the best plants, and perfected the strain. Later...
Ardent Big Green rooter Bill Cunningham, who has devoted two full columns to the clash, managed to avoid the contest itself until the late stages of each article, when he was finally forced to code a slight edge to the Crimson...