Word: uprootedness
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Rushdie's piece provided the perspective of the minuscule, intellectual, English-speaking, Westernized Indian ruling elite. He showed its prejudices about India, including the perception that history begins at the end of British rule. Rushdie made no mention of colonialism or its damages or of society's daily agony: thousands...
Ashong's parents were strict about maintaining Ghanian culture in the home, giving their frequently uprooted children a firm sense of self.
In addition to fallen tree branches, undergraduates observed two completely uprooted trees on Mass. Ave. behind Lamont Library.
Growing up in a small town in the Texas Panhandle, I often saw the symbol for tornado watch in the lower right-hand corner of our TV screen in the spring. When the warnings seemed especially serious, my family would spend a few nervous hours in the dirt crawl space...
You mentioned the tornado that hit Beatrice, Nebraska, but you failed to convey the full impact it had on our town. The bleachers in our stadium are ruined, softball fields are no more, houses are gone, trees are uprooted and the roof was blown off our middle school. It was...