Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think," wrote Fred R. Cutcheon of Madison, Wis. to Barren's weekly, "that it is about time we stopped playing Hitler's game and took advantage of the one route between the two continents that is not subject to the submarine menace." Mr. Cutcheon is a tall, white-haired, retired utility executive and electrical engineer. He is appalled at estimates of Allied shipping losses (around 500,000 tons a month), figures the cost of sunk ships plus cargoes as at least $2,000,000,000 a year-not to mention the damage to the Allied war effort...
...other American republic. But he is something of which the U.S. knows little: a cultured man of the world who is almost entirely of Indian blood, a man who, on the one hand, was educated at the Sorbonne; on the other, has ridden through Mexico's barren hills with Pancho Villa's guerrillas...
...push might take one of several courses. It might strike through Turkey toward the oil of the Caucasus. But the barren mountain wastes of Asiatic Turkey would be hard going and easy to defend-if, after Hitler's ceaseless diplomatic pressure, Turkey still chose to defend herself.* More likely, Hitler would strike toward the Caucasus through Russia, would by-pass or edge along western Turkey and drive through Syria toward the oil of Iran and Iraq. And very likely he would blast down the Mediterranean toward Suez, whose capture would speed him toward joining the Japanese in the Indian...
Many individuals, perhaps viewing with alarm the prospect of several barren years in the service, fortified themselves well for the strenuous ordeal at Mem Hall; three especially inebriated registrants forgot their names when called upon to sign, and were sent home to recover their memories with the warning to make the process as short as possible...
Flames shot up from the lonely peak, then faded. Searching parties started out over snow that bogged horses belly-deep. Men toiled up over flinty rock that shredded boots into uselessness, struggled vertically up through some of the most difficult, barren rockland...