Word: uprootedness
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There are thousands of such deserted villages in Algeria today. Their roofless houses and empty streets symbolize the plight of the passive Moslem population caught in the middle of the war's crossfire. The result is a social upheaval in which more than a million Moslems have been uprooted...
Some novels speak with nature's voices of silence, like a field of grass. At a critical touch they flatten elusively out of reach; uprooted blade by blade from the soil of context, their individual scenes and episodes wither. The authors of such books are easy to underestimate because...
Striking about four miles from the city limits, it damaged eight homes, toppled KXLW's 385-ft. radio transmitting antenna. With the heavy, rushing sound of a thundering locomotive, it rolled into the city, tossed KTVI's 575-ft. TV tower across the roofs of two apartment buildings...
Besides suggesting that there is still party opposition to be uprooted, this report indicated that Boss Khrushchev is demanding even more self-incriminating confessions before or during the 21st Party Congress, which opens Jan. 27. The rhetoric of accusation is increasing in intensity. State Prosecutor Roman Rudenko recently accused Malenkov...
Russia in Flames. When the Revolution breaks out, almost everyone Dr. Zhivago knows is enraptured by the profoundly Russian messianic dream: "There arose before the eyes of the world the vast figure of Russia bursting into flames like a light of redemption for all the sorrows and misfortunes of mankind...