Word: uprootedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
American Jewish workers-be they painters, garment workers, or cigar makers-discovered their collective strength not by membership in equivalents of respectable Hillel Societies but by joining, and often leading, their non-Jewish brothers in militant labor organizations. The uprooted, first-generation Jewish immigrants aligned by choice and by necessity...
Wits rated it with the Suez invasion as one of Britain's more disastrous Middle Eastern ventures. Prime Minister Harold Wilson hastened to disclaim responsibility for the entire affair. The Times of London spoke somberly "of hospitality blasted, of reputations uprooted and of good intentions snatched up and hurled...
Consider the headaches a sports stadium causes: Local governments-always hard pressed for funds-must often divert money from other urgent needs to build a stadium for their professional football team. Many long-time residents of a city are uprooted from their homes to clear the site of the stadium...