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
The Epstein-Barr virus is active in some, but not all, sufferers, and experts doubt it is the root of the trouble.
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
Never before among the overabundant welter of discussion about postwar problems has the central root of the trouble been tapped so accurately.
From Time Magazine Archive
She understood the root of the trouble, and knew that it had been on account of what Baptiste had written and intimated in the letter regarding the Elder.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar
