Word: barrenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more and more centers of higher learning with them. "I sort of feel the nation is asleep [on this issue], and the consequences will be deep, profound, terrible and long-lasting," Rudenstine said. We must all wake up, or we will return in 2023 to find Harvard a very barren place. Though Harvard's diversity system is not the same as the affirmative action system of the University of California, it can still be affected by a national change in policies...
...their cells in the morning to toil in the extremes of summer and winter, buffeted by the merciless southeaster or broiled by the African sun (whose glare in the limestone quarry permanently impaired Mandela's vision), each team was assigned an instructor--in history, economics, politics, philosophy, whatever. Previously barren recreation hours were filled with cultural activities, and Mandela recalls with pride his acting in the role of Creon in Sophocles' Antigone...
...resistance," says Zacharias, a teacher at the new technical school. The national emblem is the camel that carried supplies to Nakfa; the country's new currency, introduced in November to replace the Ethiopian birr, is called the nakfa. Despite Nakfa's 9,000-ft.-high chill and barren soil, the government is determined to turn this inhospitable locale into a regional magnet...
When the Combat Zone was first designated as the city's headquarters for immoral pursuits in 1974, it was "sort of a no man's land" separated from most of the city by stretches of barren lots, according to Kelly Quinn, spokesperson...
...other side, however, was the dismal prospect of returning to a barren Bright Hockey Center--a not so unrealistic thought considering the abysmal attendance figures this season...