Word: uprootedness
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Manhattan's piles of steel and stone, its solid brownstone houses stood firm, but the city's intricate, antlike pattern of existence failed. The hurricane moaned between skyscrapers in 95-mile-an-hour gusts. Water crept into the subways and trains stalled; thousands of people stayed in downtown...
Of all veterans the Continental was least uprooted. As a soldier he had usually gone home for spring plowing, harvesting and emergencies. But when X-day dawned the veteran found himself in straits common to millions of veterans throughout history. Wrote one of them: "I com down by the markett...
Why doesn't the Communist government get rid of the landlords and divide the land? The Communists say: In war time, civil peace is necessary; otherwise whole classes will be pushed into the enemy camp. The first goal now is the defeat of Japan. Next, China's feudalism...
The tornado smashed in, the high steel pyramid doubled into an inverted-V. Randall straightened up, unhurt. Up Shinns Run, the storm swirled across the countryside in a path 300 yards wide, leveling trees, houses and fences as if an army of bulldozers had streaked through the valley. At Boothsville...
Mighty Cassino, famed northern anchor of the 25-mile "G for Gustav" Line, fell early (see below). West of the fallen fortress, the Poles pushed into Piedimonte and uprooted the anchor of the supposedly powerful secondary "Hitler Line."