root of the trouble
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The root of the trouble was the same as in so many other historic complications.
From Time Magazine Archive
His columnist colleague on the New York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann, tartly observed that the President's predilection for postponing world political decisions until after the war was the root of the trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
Intellectuals are apt to consider themselves somewhat more intelligent and sensitive than most people, and in Poe's case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
Secondly and more important, when you add, "Goya was a moralist," for there you strike at the root of the trouble in the modern arts.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It will do a good deal, but it does not touch the root of the trouble."
From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan
