Word: uprootedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I was to hear alot about Western sensibilities during the summer in India. Along the same hillside, I stooped and effortlessly uprooted a knee-high plant, turned around and asked my companions if they knew what it was. They paid little attention until I told them it was marijuana. The...
Africa's land area. Though administered by autonomous governments, most depend for subsistence on primitive agriculture and handouts from Pretoria. Even within Nationalist circles, the homelands concept is criticized as unworkable. But during the past 20 years, some 3 million blacks have been stripped of their South African citizenship...
INDIAN HISTORY is much more the story of those who invaded the subcontinent than of the people native to its tropical and cultural climate. The record stands as a more than 3300-year struggle among a string of marauders, each Imperialist group seizing control over the nation's highly disjointed...
Now, at the breakfast table, Rosalynn listened carefully as her husband described what would be his daily schedule in Plains. She had been unenthusiastic in the past about going home. Her friends say that she will not last there, that eventually she will insist on moving to a place more...
Damage was nowhere near as severe as expected. In south Texas cities, streets were strewn with uprooted trees, downed power lines and splintered billboards. But most buildings were still standing. Torrential rains of 15 to 20 inches caused serious flooding in central Texas and destroyed some $400 million in crops...