Word: uprootedness
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Like the inmates of Orwell's barnyard, citizens of the Soviet Union enjoy vastly different degrees of power, privilege and material comfort, despite the country's egalitarian ideals. Soviet Communism has theoretically abolished hereditary classes, but it has neither uprooted the ladder of success nor stifled the urge...
"There was backward thinking in the whole project, so little good can come from it," Quinn says. But he adds that any $600 million project is bound to bring some benefits, and equal amounts of grief to those who are uprooted by it.
Without any desire of being an ayatollah, Sin and the Filipino church have found themselves forced by circumstances into being the spiritual benefactors of the opposition. During the seven years of martial law Marcos has effectively uprooted the country's alternative institutions. The major press organs were bought by Marcos...
Pakistan will also need aid to cope with the unending tide of refugees crossing the mountain passes from Afghanistan. There are now about 450,000 refugees in the Northwest Frontier province alone, many of whom are being sheltered by their tribal cousins in the area, but the countrywide total is...
Paumier never becomes more than an enigmatic figure, portrayed only polemically by his foe, and inadequately by the dutiful notary. Beneath the bearskin robe he liked to wear, the rebel leader remains a shadowy image, an unmeasured mix of guile, principle and erratic power. But Guerin's journal reveals...