Word: barren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anti-Neocolonialism. There are plenty of errors to avoid. Ben Bella is finally tackling the problem of land reform, which he himself has often vowed is Algeria's most urgent goal. On a three-day tour of the barren, war-ravaged bled, he pledged redistribution of 3,750,000 acres of farm land that has been abandoned by departing Europeans. But the government so far has developed no agricultural policy or even devised a program for compensating European landowners. Around Setif, the peasants have simply appropriated many deserted farms; in other areas, local committees have taken them over. Rather...
Such reconsiderations are often private, and quite different from what is publicly said-which is one reason why those who think that journalism should bring them "only the facts'' are asking for a barren and unreal account...
Seven Days a Week. Most of these adherents are poor, few of them well educated. Their churches are simple-a storefront congregation in New York's Spanish Harlem, a barren cinderblock rectangle on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The minister is likely to be a factory worker himself, secure in the Pentecostal belief that "a man of God with a Bible in his hand has had training enough." Whether he calls his church Pentecostal or Holiness or Church of God, he emphasizes an event usually glossed over by mainstream Protestants: the Pentecost, 50 days after the Resurrection, when...
...once barren valley nestled among the green hills of Wales, Queen Elizabeth II last week pushed a button and put to work Britain's newest steel mill-the Spencer plant of the government-owned Richard Thomas & Baldwins company. The new plant is designed to produce high-quality steel by means of the fast-spreading LD oxygen process (see below). And it has one other remarkable attribute: it almost runs by computer. From receipt of customers' orders to the final finishing of bars, its operations will be scheduled and supervised by a unique corps of machinery designed by Britain...
...Island. A Japanese silent (nobody says a word) that describes with relentless monotony the hard but beautiful life of a Japanese family who struggle to exist on a barren island in Japan's Inland...