Word: barrenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extent of the censorship was the brief announcement last week that Great Britain had sent 200 additional censors to its sunny Atlantic playground. Bedded in the tourist-barren Bermudiana Hotel, the new arrivals faced a prodigious job in catching up on the volume of accumulated U. S mail. Tons of it had piled up since last August when all American Export Line ships-although not allowed to carry passengers to or from Bermuda-had been going over 400 miles out of their way to allow Bermuda stevedores to come aboard and take off mailbags. There was also a great accumulation...
...there was still plenty of evidence for the direct Channel attack. Big guns were not rolled up to Boulogne and other points to pock the barren cliffs of Kent; they were probably there to protect a landing. The Luftwaffe was very definitely still trying to knock out coastal airports to push back fighter resistance...
...study was a barren room with uncovered floors and cream-colored walls hung only with a large map of Mexico. In its centre was a long wooden table stacked with books and manuscripts. Trotsky sat down there, began to read the manuscript his friend had brought. Jackson leaned over his shoulder. From under his coat, where he had hidden a pistol, a dagger and an Alpine pick, he chose the heaviest instrument. If he succeeded with this, he would make no sound, do his work with one quick blow...
...Iceland to Greenland), but to make use of it he would have to come by sea and establish a base there. To drive him out by a land attack might prove nearly as difficult as driving the Germans out of Norway for much of the terrain is almost equally barren and difficult. And from a base in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland he could harry the U. S. coast by sea and set about the steady business of softening up the U. S. and Canada by air raids on their industrial plants, hydroelectric stations (the chief of which are shown...
...Last week, for the first time in more than two decades, some 300 U. S. dress manufacturers, designers, buyers and fashion editors failed to spend early August in Paris, France. For the first time in over 20 years the cables were barren of news from world headquarters of the haute couture. For the first time since they began publication, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar sent to press their all-important autumn issues without a single last-minute Paris model to rave about. The U. S. dress business, whose 7,000 manufacturers and 250,000 workers turn out upwards...