Word: uprootedness
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In other cities, the Interstate went through unimpeded, but with ill effects. During the 1960s old oak trees lining Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans were uprooted to clear the way for Interstate 10. What had been a street known for its black professionals' offices became a seedy strip.
The Morses were uprooted yet again in December 1965, this time by soldiers of Socialist Dictator Ne Win. The night the order came, 600 Lisu packed the thatch-roofed church to hear the family patriarch, then 67, read from Matthew 10: 23: "When they persecute you in one town, flee...
When the residents of Montebello Poniente (pop 8,000) a suburb of San Salvador on the slopes of one of El Salvador s largest volcanoes, heard the rumblings shortly after dawn, they assumed that it was just another mild earthquake, the sort they had experienced many times before But then...
In the squash and racquetball courts, several of the wooden floorboards have been uprooted and broken by the moisture.
By last Tuesday the agricultural settlements of the northern Sinai had been evacuated. Settlement after settlement had been bulldozed to the ground, the trees uprooted or covered with sand. Even the security fences were removed.