Word: uprootedness
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Men had sweated with pick and shovel, earlier in the week, uprooting all the police "safety islands" in the boulevards along which the cortege would pass. On his last ride the supreme generalissimo must swerve neither to right nor left, and so the ugly "islands" were uprooted, and straight down...
A Belgian soldier had a vision during the last German attack. He saw the whole earth, uprooted, dancing madly and monotonously to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Thus terrific, thus awful a genius does the Stravinsky of today appear to a handful of those who pretend to understand him.
"There was battle, and the happy Staggerbears are no more, for the Guzzlenots uprooted the foamcups and fizzbells, cut down the eggnog vines and poisoned the happy little brandy bees.
Five thousand Russians paid $6,000 to hear famed Menshevik* Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky, onetime Russian Dictator, speak at the Century Theatre, Manhattan. Amid furious excitement a half-ton bronze candelabra was uprooted and flung down in the lobby by the sheer pressure of the crowd. Bolsheviks† yelled. Tsarists brandished...
At various times during the past 50 years, efforts have been made by tree surgeons to prolong the life of the Agassiz elm. In 1910 the giant tree which measured a little less than ten feet in circumference at its base, showed signs of dry not around the roots and...