Word: uprootedness
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The trustees of Columbia University gave Handlin the award, and the $500 that goes with it, for his history of American immigration--"The Uprooted Handlin's work is a popularized history of American settlement.
During the night, some 1,000 fans patiently queued for tickets. By morning, when tickets went on sale, the queue had swelled to 16,000, stretching for two miles. The crowd became unruly; it pushed over a couple of brick walls, trampled gardens, uprooted hedges. This frenzied performance by normally...
Purist. In Beaminster. England, Peter Tunstall was fined $5.60 for "malicious damage" after he uprooted a signpost that read "Drive Slow," wrote on it: "Disgusted at this display of bad English. Please rewrite and re-erect."
MIDDLE EAST The Forgotten Prominent Americans, led by former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and Vice President Alben Barkley, busied themselves last week trying to sell a $500 million Israeli bond issue in the U.S. Israel, it was pointed out. is taking in some 6,000 refugees a...
When the sun reappeared at noon the next day, 109 people were dead. Thousands of men, women, and children, their homes beaten to matchwood, moved into churches, schools, hospitals. Damage, including windblown, flooded sugar cane and bananas, reached an estimated $56 million. Power lines had been knocked down and railroad...