Word: uprootedness
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While orange groves were being uprooted to make way for suburbia, and new six-lane freeways reached out to ease the swollen traffic arteries, one of the few unchanging Los Angeles landmarks over the past 14 years has been its mayor, Fletcher
Handlin, associate professor of History, was awarded the Pulitizer Prize for history for "The Uprooted." He is now working on a study of the American in the 20th century.
The bitterness between India and Pakistan is a frightening thing which grows from day to day, sometimes from hour to hour. Newspapers of both sides report minor frontier clashes as major engagements, so that invasion seems imminent. Politicians remind their listeners of those terror-filled days in 1947, when 12...
General Sir Gerald Templer, Britain's crisp, aggressive High Commissioner for Malaya, is slowly gaining ground in his war with the Red guerrillas. He has some 400,000 troops, police and home guards against about 5,000 Communists. Malaya is laced with barbed wire, crisscrossed with searchlights, webbed with...
Joseph Kramm, for his play The Shrike. <1 Harvard Professor Oscar Handlin, for The Uprooted, a history of immigrants in the U.S.