Word: barren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning star live up to the romance of science and turn out to be teeming with life? Were there, as some romanticists confidently expected, forests of intelligent, moving trees? Or would Mariner prove the accuracy of some of the glummer theories of radio astronomy -that Venus is a barren ball covered with a dull layer of dust? Last week JPL's boss, New Zealand-born Physicist William Hayward Pickering, brought his Mariner team to Washington to deliver a batch of decoded data containing the first series of answers...
...blacks, 15,000 to 20,000 whites, and 14,000 coloreds will be strictly limited. All measures passed by the local legislature of tribal chiefs and elected representatives are subject to veto by the central government; Cape Town still will control justice and internal security. Money to improve the barren region will be lacking. Verwoerd has promised an annual budget subsidy of $30 million, but this falls far short of meeting the need for housing, schools, land reclamation, establishing new industry. In addition, Matanzima faces powerful political opposition from another Tembu chief, Sabata Dalindyebo, who does not like the Bantustan...
...Carte Rouge" for its steady deficits. Beginning operations in 1959 after its two competitors had already started. Carte Blanche imprudently handed out cards to poor credit risks, ended up with an inordinate number of bill dodgers. In a rescue operation two years ago, Conrad Hilton eased his son Barren out of the presidency, replaced him with veteran Hotelman Benno M. Bechhold, 60. Bechhold weeded out poor risks, cut the number of cardholders by 100,000 (current membership: 425,000) and installed an IBM 1401 computer to speed up billing operations. As a result, Carte Blanche earned $900,000 on billings...
...which we have experienced in the buildings of the past. Sunlight and shadow, form, ornament, the element of surprise are little-explored fields, barely understood by today's architects." Since then, Yamasaki has done his best to achieve "the joy of surprise - the experience of moving from a barren street through a narrow opening in a high wall to find a quiet court with a lovely garden and still water; or to tiptoe through the mystery and dimness of a Buddhist temple and come upon a court of raked white gravel dazzling in the sunlight ; or to walk...
Wales in the 19th century was barren, poor, diseased and hagridden with superstition. It was, in short, picturesque but a tough place for Welshmen. Seen in retrospect by Welsh Novelist Jones, it remains determinedly picturesque but a hazardous place for novelists...