Word: uprootedness
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Mediators & Fumblers. He took over the dirty shell of a 150-year-old organization that had outlived its function. It still reeked from the scandals of power abused, and the base of its power was gone. New York, like many another American city, had once been a teeming jungle of...
The explosion's chain reaction reached 25 of the plant's 57 sheds and shacks, and all eight of the big wooden buildings. Packets of firecrackers shot aloft and burst in the air. As Kent's 300 workers, three-quarters of them women, ran for their lives...
Handlin is an authority on both the history of Massachusetts and immigration into the United States. In 1952, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, "The Uprooted," a study of the immigrant in America. He was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association in 1942...
While Manolios is wrestling with himself on the mountain and winning, the townspeople wrestle with their collective conscience and lose. A starving band of refugees, uprooted by the Turks from another village, appear at the gates of Lycovrissi and plead for bread and a chance to start new lives in...
Like the prose, the poetry ranges from good t disappointing. In "Jonathan Victus," Peter MacVeagh chose his theme with care, nurtured it through four fine stanzas, and then uprooted it poetically with a jarring last verse. Similarly, Benjamin La Farge, in his "letter To a Friend," includes phrases like "where...