Word: barrenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more alarming trend. But even if there are some shows that young kids should be shielded from, the question is whether all TV should be held to the standard of safe-for-children. If TV were to be scrubbed clean for kids, it would be a pretty barren place for adults...
Edward's home on long Island had two-stories and five bedrooms. The overpainted dark brown gable needed repair, and the front garden--which Edward had spent summers cultivating during high school--was barren. Crisp, paper-thin leaves held tentatively to sickly vines, flaking off into small puffs of dust in the wind. Edward heaved a heavy sign and rang the doorbell...
Despite low undergraduate orders, Soldiers Field will not be completely barren...
...evening of July 17 a member of the Soviet's executive committee, Yakov Yurovsky, ordered the prisoners to dress. They were herded into a barren, unfurnished room with a single grilled window. Because "your relatives are continuing to attack the Soviet Union," Yurovsky told Nicholas, the committee had ordered his execution. A firing squad of 11 Russians and Latvians began shooting. The scene was bizarre as well as murderous. Some of the women were wearing, in effect, priceless bulletproof vests: they had hidden jewels in their corsets, which sent slugs ricocheting around the room. Pulses were checked and the stripped...
...waste and untreated sewage now are clear and swimmable. No matter; because oil, gas and real estate interests pleaded inconvenience, water-quality standards are to be lowered. Protection of wetlands, which nourish marine life, is to be cut at a time when fish-producing U.S. coastal ecosystems are nearly barren...