Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muddy brooks some soldiers would break discipline, stoop and guzzle the water-nothing else could be had en route. The fields were barren and deserted, the houses shuttered and hollow. Once we saw a hunchbacked cripple spading his garden. In one village a blind peasant sat on his doorstep amidst the empty houses of his neighbors and listened to the plodding shuffle of passing troops...
About half of barren marriages can now be made fertile, compared with one-fifth 20 years ago. Strangely low metabolism often goes with sterility, and thyroid extract sometimes results in babies...
Across the beautiful barren badlands of northwestern China, past sinkholes, chasms and occasional green valleys, jounced six foreign correspondents, ten Chinese journalists and five alert representatives of Chungking's Ministry of Information...
Next day, in a barren cell under the Washington courtroom where he is on trial for sedition, Naziphile George Sylvester Viereck Sr., already serving a one-to-five-year prison term as an unregistered agent of the Reich, listened stolidly as his wife broke the news to him. The Vierecks' other son, Sergeant Peter Viereck, author of a critical book on the origins of National Socialism, is now in North Africa...
Diamond deals with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie left the U.S. almost barren of chlorate of potash capacity, an essential not only of match making but of ammunition, when war broke...