Word: rootless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diamond-smuggling hero is also employed by an oil company in Africa, and is another rootless, if educated, man. His disorientation fits neatly into the stifling heat of West Africa, where life consists of Copulating, making money to take vacations, drinking, and playing tennis. Hero Reed Hodgins meets misfortune because he wants to make more money than Africa affords through legitimate channels...
...best reply to Stevenson's rootless eloquence was not the presidential report or the imprecations of Republican orators. It was an equally eloquent passage from a speech made four years ago: "Until it [the atomic bomb] is subjected to a safe international control, we have no choice but to insure our atomic superiority . . . We can never yield on the objective of securing a foolproof system of international inspection and control. And we can never confuse negotiation with appeasement...
...Rootless Ones. These problems provide fertile ground for exploitation. As long as the students stay in the U.S., they live in a sort of no man's land. Many have no legal status, are permitted to remain only on an indefinite basis. Some find it impossible to make plans or a decent living. Some are lonely; there are about five male Chinese students to each female. "Many of them," explains a Chinese professor now teaching in New Jersey, "have discarded Confucianism and have not acquired the Christian spirit of the Americans. The technology they have learned is not enough...
...many another U.S. city in the period 1820-1920, came immigrants by the thousands and by the tens and hundreds of thousands-Irish driven by famine, Italians by population pressures, Jews by persecutions. These were not all or mostly the brave or the gallant; many were the fearful, the rootless, the lost. Tammany cared for them when the U.S. Government and most of its higher-minded citizens were unwilling or unable to do so. Tammany fed them, led them, got them houses, found them jobs-and used their votes to sustain itself in power...
...result (not published until 1929) was All Quiet on the Western Front, still the best item in his collection. More recent history has given Remarque the plots for mediocre stories on a Nazi concentration camp (Spark of Life) and that victim of Europe's ravening isms, the rootless refugee (Arch of Triumph). Almost inevitably, Remarque had to write his novel of World War II. A June Book-of-the-Month-Club choice, A Time to Love and a Time to Die is a kind of pale tenth carbon copy of All Quiet with one difference:though it shows...