Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rainy night in 1941, a young Presbyterian minister and his dark-haired bride arrived at their first parish. Scotts Run, near Morgantown, West Va., was a drab example of a drab species-the coalmining community. In its unpainted houses set among barren yards lived 5,000 mine folk. But Scotts Run was just where the Reverend Richard Charles Smith wanted to live...
...barren quarters in a Washington office building on H Street that had no rugs, no safe and only borrowed furniture, the executive directors of the bank held their first meeting. Diplomatically, the U.S. informed them that it has not yet selected the Bank's president. What this meant was that President Truman has not yet got a yes from his latest candidate for the job, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal...
Steel production was down to 67.7% and falling fast. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. was down to 22% operations in the Pittsburgh-Youngstown district, and down to 40% in the Chicago-Gary area. Barren's index of industrial production was down to 160.5, a drop of 14.6 since the strike's start...
...what about Element 96? Had the ruler of Hades no chick nor child? Pluto had kidnapped Persephone, and since Greek gods usually kidnapped because their hearts were in it, and goddesses were seldom barren, there might well have been a by-blow. Element 96. he reasoned, might be called "bastardium...
Grandmother was boss, and when she wanted anything she yelled for it. If it didn't come fast enough, she cracked someone on the head with a stone. When Raven was hungry, he snagged a fish from the brook and gulped it, head, guts and all. When Barren wanted a baby, she moaned to the moon, danced in the rain, hugged leafy trees...