root of the trouble
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Perhaps the root of the trouble lay in his peculiar emotional relationship to his mother.
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The Epstein-Barr virus is active in some, but not all, sufferers, and experts doubt it is the root of the trouble.
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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.
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Never before among the overabundant welter of discussion about postwar problems has the central root of the trouble been tapped so accurately.
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The root of the trouble was that the road was not built solely or even mainly with a view to operating efficiency and earning power.
From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
