Word: uprootedness
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When he was 14, Maurice Hindus left the little Russian village of Bolshoye Bikovo to make his fortune in the U. S. As it turned out, he made his fortune by periodic returns to his Russian village. In the years after the War, when most U. S. foreign correspondents were...
Lampposts were blown down, trees uprooted and their greenery set afire, buildings collapsed and streetcars & their occupants were blown to bits. Correspondent Matthews set about getting something to eat during a lull between raids, continued to observe morale in the restaurant. "I did not find it amusing," he cabled afterward...
Last week, about three weeks after Rexford Tugwell's Resettlement Administration was liquidated by the Department of Agriculture, the N. E. C., long recognized as no flower but a cumbersome New Deal weed, was uprooted by an executive order of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Except for its Press Intelligence service...
Site chosen for this edifice is the edge of the cherry-rimmed Tidal Basin, directly on the North-South axis from the White House through the Washington Monument. The building will serve no purpose other than to house a monumental statue of Thomas Jefferson similar to the one now in...
Trotsky urged the industrialization oi Russia, and that was "Trotskyism" until he had been kicked out and it became Stalinism. Trotsky urged regimentation oi the Russian peasantry by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the peasants to be uprooted from their little holdings and forced onto vast collective farms with tractor...