Word: uproots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march was intended to protest particularly the Brookline Elm St. route, the path favored by the State Department of Public Works that would uproot between 3000-5000 people...
Meeting as a special committee on the Inner Belt, the Council took no official position on an alternate route for the Brookline-Elm St. location, which would uproot between 3000 and 5000 people and pass within several blocks of Central Square. However, the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, a private group of planners, strongly urged that the City recommend a path along Albany and Portland Streets in East Cambridge...
What the Inner Belt threatens to do is uproot nearly five per cent of the City's population and pass within two blocks of Central Square. The Inner Belt itself will have eight lanes and the service roads that must run parallel to it will add another four or six. Clearly, the prospect isn't either pretty or pleasing, and the City Council has consistently informed the Commonwealth of its opposition to "any and all Belt routes" through Cambridge...
...into one dorm and pay $10 for the privilege. "A security consideration," says Radcliffe brass. Yet University police don't take off the week for a Bermuda jaunt. And most head residents stay in Cambridge anyway. We're all for keeping the girls safe over term-break. But why uproot them so? And why that...
Daniel's Passage. His assurances were hardly enough. A Colored who becomes a card-carrying white must uproot himself and his family from home, job, friends and kin to enter a world in which he may never be fully accepted. In one recent case, Edward Raubenheimer, a relatively well-to-do Cape Town Colored school principal, learned that his older, less successful brother Daniel had been reclassified as white at age 67. White status was simultaneously conferred on Daniel's wife, who is the daughter of a Colored woman and a white salesman, and their four children...