Word: uprooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police or the CIA. Yet France's daily Le Monde, which is frequently critical of American policy, found the massacre "unAmerican." Said the paper: "It would have been inconceivable, and without doubt unrealizable on the victims' own soil, with or without their consent. It was necessary to uproot them, to transport them to the heart of the jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them to become self-destructive robots." Perhaps reflecting a recent, antileftist trend...
...about the size of the part. "It's easier to move back and forth between the theater and films in England," Fonda feels, "where everything is in one place. Here film and theater are separated by the width of the continent, and it's not easy to uproot children from school, mothers and wives from homes to live in a hotel. I've done a lot of theater because I want to. If I'm away from it for a while I miss the audience contact, and even more the joy of creating something from start...
...West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group that believes in the God-given right of Israelis to inhabit ancient Judea and Samaria. Washington, most Arabs and even many Israelis regard the settlements - and the Begin government's refusal to uproot them - as a major obstacle to peace. Even the Israeli soldiers guarding the 60 men, women and small children of Shiloh from hostile Arabs oppose the settlement...
Although the discovery did uproot the belief that each gene was involved in the production of only a single protein, it is an infrequent enough phenomenon not to require any fundamental re-evaluation of current research, Meselson said...
Though the city will have to reduce its welfare budget, it cannot-and should not-solve the problem alone. Its dependent population was largely created by federal policies. By subsidizing mechanization on the farm, the U.S. Government helped uproot hundreds of thousands of poor Southern blacks, who flocked to Northern cities during the 1950s and 1960s. The city has also been forced to accept an unlimited migration from Puerto Rico; traditionally, New York has served as the port of entry for most immigrants to America. Yet that function has never been properly recognized or reimbursed...