Word: uproot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asking that a new, random lottery determine, once and for all, which Houses go coed. Since last year's preferential lottery-engineered by May in a stunning display of bureaucratic complexity-approached the arbitrary quality of random selection, it would seem absurd to repeat a process that would ultimately uproot some of the women who have begun to establish themselves in their Houses...
...concerned about continues to advance. A recent report by the N.A.A.C.P. and Harvard's Center for Law and Education charged that federal funds appropriated for Indian education have been siphoned off for white schools. The discovery of immense oil deposits on Alaska's North Slope threatens to uproot thousands of Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians. In Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the buffalo have grown so numerous that the state allows hunting. A license to shoot buffalo costs $500. There are no discounts to Indians...
Flimsy Excuse. Busia's policy eventually may uproot all but 10% of Ghana's 2,500,000 aliens. The action may antagonize his neighbors, especially the Nigerians. But at home, where 600,000 Ghanaians are unemployed, the move has already proved popular...