Word: scatteredness
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The war has had an equally brutalizing effect on the young girls of Viet Nam. For them, marriage is an increasingly unattainable goal; families and clans have been scattered, eligible young men have been killed or are away at war. In the chaos of war and relocation, tens of thousands...
Now that idyllic landscape has become one of the major battlefields of the longest war in American history. The mountain jungles have been cratered and burned and sprayed; the woodcutters and hunters have fled. The farmers have been driven east, their villages leveled and their fields scorched and abandoned. The...
A stream of 35 military police jeeps encircled Dupont Circle, where police scattered demonstrators and arrested them for jaywalking and walking against the traffic lights. Arrests were usually rough, and police brought in dogs to disperse bands of demonstrators on sidestreets.
After being routed from the park yesterday morning, demonstrators regrouped by regions last night at George Washington, Georgetown, American and Maryland Universities. A few scattered protestors met in local churches.
Police scattered a crowd of about 1500 there, but the marchers regrouped and gained more supporters as they headed for George Washington University. The march swelled in size to about 5000 persons before riot-equipped officers used nightsticks and mace to restore order.