Word: uproots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite Sputnik, the Soviet drive to scientific advancement is not as far advanced as many Americans believe-even the impressive new scientific center at Novosibirsk represents primarily a plan to uproot scientists in other cities and put them to work under government domination in Siberia; in its atomic power programs, the U.S.S.R. still uses old devices that the U.S. abandoned years...
...Slaughter. "What is coming is coming," cried Edusei in a street speech. "The job of the politician is to uproot his enemies. Others who are involved in the plot and have not been arrested will be, one by one." Those already in jail, added Edusei, would be kept there five years, and anyone visiting them more than four times would end up in prison too. Edusei then announced that the government was withdrawing the passports of members of the opposition, added that he had thousands of secret policemen at work watching for potential subversives. And what if the people...
...years, the tone of Quincy will be set by those upperclassmen who are willing to uproot themselves from their present Houses and actively participate in the creation of a new House," he said...
Thorn Patch Uprooted. Democratic Whip Mansfield had gradually focused his gaze on the best issue the Democrats had: the debatable constitutionality of the word "authorized" in the first half of the resolution. Eisenhower and Dulles insisted that the word was needed to show the world that Congress stands firmly behind the President. But thoughtful Senators on both sides of the aisle began to wonder whether adoption of "authorized" might throw doubt upon the President's implied power as Commander in Chief to use armed forces to safeguard the nation's security. This doubt, the reasoning ran, might deter...
Saud's offer to sacrifice 10 million Arab lives (his own not included) to "uproot Israel" brings to mind the story about a World War I general-probably apocryphal-who told a group of officers, "I'd give 30,000 men to take that hill." From the back of the group came the comment: "Liberal s.o.b...