Word: uprooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a tree surgeon, one Sidney Stearns. Ralph Coghlan said he was "very serious" about wanting those cannon on the scrap pile. Upshot: Arborist Stearns agreed to get a friend and remove the cannon; Editor Coghlan agreed to pay the expenses. Further upshot: when Stearns and. friend tried to uproot the cannon they were arrested. The case was suddenly complicated when police found a loaded revolver, a full can of gasoline and a sixth tire in Stearns's truck...
...scientists are at last risking their jobs and perhaps their lives to criticize dogmas which the Nazis have tried to substitute for science. Last week U.S. scientists were surprised to see in learned journals newly arrived from Germany counter-attacks against the great Nazi campaign, begun last year, to uproot Darwinism...
...people last week, it was clear that their Government had not yet become too strong for their liberties. But straws showed a rising gale, a growing disposition of men in and out of Government to question whether democracy could afford all its liberties, a disposition to uproot minorities whose views seemed to them subversive. Last week in New York City the uprooting began: school authorities started proceedings to dismiss teachers for being Communists...