Word: uprootedness
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Tens of thousands of trees have been uprooted by Israel, and frequently entire villages are placed under curfew in retaliation for specific acts. Thousands of Palestinian homes have been sealed or demolished since the beginning of the occupation as punishment for anything from a stone-throwing child to graffiti found...
At 11 a.m., I went outside for the first time to the grey, wet and devastating day. I was in shock at the destruction that had occurred: Trees were uprooted and scattered as if they were leaves blown about by an autumn gust of wind. Power lines and traffic lights...
More than 2 million former Yugoslavs have been forced to flee for their lives in this war. They were uprooted by the atavistic policy of "ethnic cleansing" on conquered territory, enforced most fiercely by the Serbs but also by Croats and Muslims. Refugees are only a by-product in most...
Marilyn Leistner doesn't believe scientists anymore -- at least not the ones who once denounced dioxin but now downplay its dangers. Leistner was the last mayor of Times Beach, Mo., the town of 2,400 that the U.S. government evacuated and closed down in 1982 because it was contaminated with...
After the arrival of the red biplane in the ordered midst of the family, however, the stage takes on a surrealistic disarray. The uprooted plants in the greenhouse float eerily in mid-air, while the displaced iron lattice remains at its impossible, displaced angle, leaving a gaping hole in the...