Word: uprootedness
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Indio is one of the premier watering places of an adventurous, uprooted, self-indulgent subculture that roams America's highways in $1 million buses. That's correct: $1,000,000 (give or take a few thousand).
This difficult life requires obstinacy. There are no stores for shopping. The settlers must travel the roads outside their homes in high-speed convoys, for fear of snipers. Last week the army uprooted crops for 50 yds. on either side of the road and cut down palms on the median...
Even so-called ecoterrorists who have uprooted scores of university test plots across the country in the past year use the Net to organize their lawbreaking protests. In an Internet posting from Santa Cruz last week, Earth First! beckons, "You're all invited to sunny California for a weekend of...
French farmers staged a dramatic protest against the European Union a few years ago by hauling sections of wheatfields that had been uprooted, and cattle and sheep, to the center of the Champs Elysees. The police rushed to surround this sudden imposition of the countryside on the city, which disrupted...
8:52 a.m.--A morning patrol by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) noticed that all the stakes in the Yard were uprooted and strewn around. University engineers were notified.