Word: uprootedness
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Died. Tingfu F. Tsiang, 69, Nationalist China's longtime Ambassador to the U.N. (1947-62) and to the U.S." (1962-65), a Columbia University-educated historian and original (1934-42) member of the Chiang Kai-shek Cabinet, who took charge of China's wartime relief program, feeding some...
7. All his life farmer Jones and raised strawberries and so, when one spring morning he glanced out his window and spied a strawberry big as an echo satellite growing in his patch, he was ecstactic beyond description. He knew he'd be able to sell the fruit and retire...
Even when the New Boston has finally been built, the poor will still suffer; while they will have been the most uprooted, they will receive only 5,000 units (or 14 per cent) of the new housing. Significantly, this group comprises 26.5 per cent of Boston's present population. In...
Alfred described the play's subject as "the effect of politics upon the lives of people in an Irish-American community in 1890." He said he is indebted to "one of the most beautiful books I've ever read," The Uprooted, by Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, for its...
This blissful nonchalance has now evaporated, and election campaigns have developed into bitter crusades to save the state's political soul. California now claims more inhabitants and wealth than any other state, and the incredible population influx has uprooted political traditions and machinery as ruthlessly as it has the landscape...