Word: barrenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wind of J.D. Salinger's plans to publish a new book. We were suspicious: why had the reclusive writer decided to publish for the first time in more than thirty years? Literary junkies that we are, we couldnt resist trying to track down more information for our near-barren Salinger file...
This weekend's road trip to the barren winter wasteland of upstate New York is thus pivotal, both in determining the outcome of the Crimson's regular season and in building momentum essential for a successful playoff...
...begin and all those quilt panels and ribbons and T shirts will become relics or even flea-market collectibles. There was a debate recently over destroying some last sample of smallpox, contained in a laboratory. I wish I could visit the final AIDS molecule, cornered and shivering in some barren government crypt. No mercy...
...Friday, the day before the Yale and-Harvard varsity football teams faced off in Harvard Stadium surrounded by the fanfare of tailgates and band duals, a flock of hardy IM participants took to the barren, nameless fields (the J.V. soccer fields or the fields behind the Palmer Dixon tennis courts) to decide the nation's leader in IM aptitude...
...doors to their cells suddenly had been flung open, and across the world, diplomats were crossing their fingers. A Tutsi offensive had driven Hutu forces westward into Zaire, potentially forcing the Hutu militias to relinquish control of the bursting Mugunga refugee camp that has served as a barren purgatory to more than 1 million people, and as cover for thousands of militiamen hiding from their enemies. A significant exodus would greatly ease the need for the U.N. humanitarian and military intervention that has been hurriedly assembled over the past few days. Refugees said some Hutu troops had fired into...