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Word: uprootedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Estimates today of the world's population of permanently unsettled refugees range between 10 million and 13 million. Every continent and virtually every nation has been affected. In the Middle East, there are 2.5 million Palestinians who still mourn for the vanished orange groves of Jaffa, which many have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Save Us! Save Us! | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Why today is the Shah reviled and Ayatullah Khomeini revered? One reason is that millions of Iranian poor were untouched by the new wealth of the monarch's industrializing society; meanwhile, many remember the role traditionally played by the Shi'ite mullahs as protectors of the oppressed. TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Grateful Family | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

WELL, you might ask, if small farms are actually more efficient than big ones, why are they being gobbled up by the likes of Pat Benedict, who in the past few years has aquired four farms? The article reports that "in three cases, he razed and burned the houses, uprooted...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Down on the Farmer | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Pat and Edwin kept reinvesting their profits and borrowing to acquire more land. Today the family owns 1,900 acres and rents another 1,600?underscoring a surprising point about modern U.S. farm economics. Tenant farmers these days are no longer the classic Southern sharecroppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Before setting off for the Crusades seven centuries ago, Louis IX of France ordered the kingdom's bordellos closed. Uprooted but unfazed, many French prostitutes proceeded to join the Crusaders, traipsing along to the Holy Land as camp followers. Modern rulers have not had much better luck. When the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Unhappy over Hookers | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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