Word: uprootedness
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Tents on the Lawns. By Weather Bureau reckoning, Camille was the most violent storm ever to strike the U.S. The hurricane's fury-210-m.p.h. winds and waves up to 22 ft. high-fell most savagely upon the Delta parish of Plaquemines, La., and a 35-mile shorefront strip...
SECOND DAY. Bow cradled under his arm like a violin, Fred moved through the bush like the prey he was pursuing -three steps, pause, slowly look around. Stepping in slow motion, he somehow worked his size 14 hunting boots through the tangle of twigs without a sound. Coming upon a...
The incident on which the novel is based occurred in 1942, when the fearful U.S. was so busy remembering the threats and wrongs of Pearl Harbor that it busily forgot the rights of many Americans of Japanese descent. They were cruelly uprooted from their homes and arbitrarily herded together in...
Trip to Tashkent. Since then, Grigorenko has taken over one of Koste-rin's favorite causes, the return of the Tartars to the Crimea, their ancestral home on the Black Sea. Because some Tartars may have collaborated with the Nazis, Stalin in 1945 abolished their republic, uprooted more than...
(9 of 11) village election?none of which is probably uppermost in the minds of the uprooted, war-weary villagers. Critics point out that there has been no substantial reduction in assassinations, kidnappings and other terror tactics against villagers.