Word: uprooting
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...feet. To keep only the best grades of wine on the market, growers will be compelled to turn over 12% of their harvest to the government, at a low price, for distillation into industrial alcohol. If there is still overproduction by 1958, the government will force the winemakers to uproot a percentage of their vines each year until output matches sales. As one expert summed it up: "The French wine industry is now at the crossroads, and the question is quality or quantity...
...Douglas, on the Isle of Man, where 1,000 delegates representing 8,000,000 British union workers gathered for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress. The Bevanites came with thoraxes well oiled and briefcases crammed with speeches and resolutions concocted to harass, convert, and, if possible, uproot the T.U.C.'s Percheron-stolid leadership. Amplified by Communist and fellow-traveler support which they disdain but inevitably attract, Bevanite voices rang out with demands for censure against T.U.C. members who accept posts in the Conservative Churchill government, for condemnation of U.S. cold war policy, for criticism of the West...
...Paramount, where even the big tank (for shooting water scenes) was dry, most of the gardeners were let go and secretaries were permitted to uproot the plants and take them home...
...those of us who are intimately associated with a university should resent what we believe to be unreasoned attacks upon it from those over-zealous patriots whom we fear do not properly construe either the functions of a university or the character of the evil they are seeking to uproot. When faced with this threat our strongest weapon is found among those academic principles which we feel constrained to defend--respect for the opinions of others. I am convinced that today's Communist hunters are not inherently vicious men seeking only to persecute harmless professors. I feel that...
Partially as a result of such protest, and partially because the library's donor, Thomas W. Lamont '92, obliged with funds, the University merely decided to uproot, rather than destroy, the yellow wooden structure. Since 1947 therefore it has squatted between the Union and the Faculty Club, and, provided with a permanent hostess and various pieces of period furniture, has housed an estimated three to four hundred visitors to the University--all of them official guests of varying status...