Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white opium poppies burst into bloom last week in the barren mountains of Northwest Mexico, setting the stage for melodrama. Troops rode through the hidden valleys, determined to stop the opium harvest. But the contraband harvesters, brown farmers and shepherds, bent on sharing the highest dope prices in history from over the border, eluded the soldiers...
...sight; time has almost run out for the Japs. More than 70% of the barren little island is held by the marines, and only a miracle can bar complete occupation this week...
...have viewed the process with increasing alarm, while visionary eugenists have hailed the prospects (e.g., the indefinite perpetuation of great men through preservation of their frozen semen for generation after generation of selected mothers). Today, however, most doctors are interested in artificial insemination only as a remedy for otherwise barren marriages...
Fresh cash came into the market from bondholders, who were also shifting their money into common stocks. At high prices, bond yields are close to record lows. Barren's noted that the ten "highest grade bonds" on its index paid only 2.6% interest. Any broker could rattle off a string of common stocks paying upwards...
Radio cars patrolling the roads and armed men searching freight trains by week's end had found nothing of the other 19 escaped prisoners. Unless they had help from the outside, the vanished prisoners (twelve of them Nazi officers) faced nearly 200 miles of trudging across barren cactus-studded desert to reach the Mexican border. Veteran Arizona sheriff's deputies and U.S. border patrolmen settled down to patient, poker-faced waiting...