Word: uproot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University plans to build the Kennedy Institute that the community is against. And because Massachusetts granted Harvard the rights to the land conditional that the complex or at least the library be built there also. Harvard stands to lose a valuable parcel if the Kennedy corporation decides to uproot the complex. It was only a little less than 20 years ago the former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 tried and failed to buy the land from Penn Central as a first choice for the site of Mather House...
Speaking to a trade-union group in Jerusalem, the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Goren, demanded that Israel "uproot this affliction. There is nothing antidemocratic about such legislation, and decent people of all faiths will support it." About the last point the rabbi is partly right, since most established Christian groups have little use for the Jews for Jesus and other overzealous evangelists. In a letter to the Jerusalem Post, Franciscan Father Joseph Cremona, who has lived in Israel for 30 years, protested the missionaries' efforts. "I am not here to suggest that the government curb missionary activity...
...roles in this Cherry Orchard are miscast, not as to skill, but in terms of temperament. Madame Ra-nevskaya, who cannot bring herself to uproot the orchard and build a housing development, ought to be enveloped in actressy vanity and a flighty inability to cope. Yet Gloria Foster displays little vanity and seems to possess such granitic strength as to have sold the estate and axed the first cherry tree herself. Lopakin, the son of a serf, who buys the Ranevskaya property at auction, is played a shade too unctuously by James Earl Jones, who also lacks the quality...
...nation's social priorities -along the laissez-faire lines that he has long supported. The President had already begun to move away from controls with a fairly relaxed Phase III. Now he could cut back on federal spending that he deems wasteful, and perhaps could even uproot Washington's New Deal-era farm policy...
...British government of not granting immigration vouchers quickly enough, but the real bottleneck is his own government-which, as of last week, had issued exit permits for only 60 Asians. Nonetheless, Amin insists that any Asians still in the country on Nov. 7 will be interned. The decision to uproot the Asian community, he has said, came straight from Allah...