Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Odria says: "I shall go, but the regime will go on. Whoever succeeds me must be a man willing to carry through my program for the country's good." Such talk plainly points to continued suppression of Apra, and no other party has managed to survive the politically barren years in any strength. By the present signs, therefore, Odria will stage a purely formal election vith a single, designated candidate...
...decades the barren, overcrowded Mezzogiorno-the southern two-fifths of Italy that has 37% of the nation's population-has been a vast poorhouse. And World War II, which destroyed 28% of the south's already lagging industrial capacity (v. 18% in the north), seemed the final blow. Only 308 out of every 1,000 Mezzogiornisti held jobs (many for only 80 days yearly), and in scores of squalid piazze lounged hundreds of men young and old who had never had a day's work. Richer Mezzogiornisti lived four and five in a room; the poor inhabited...
...trusted. Our crisis today comes from man's greed and will to power, his refusal to submit to reason. As Christians, we must hope that in the Kremlin's dictatorial mind there can eventually be sown some small measure of skepticism as to the value of the barren earth which any atomic war would bring. We must pray for that, with our lips and with the example of holy lives...
Even as the Security Council deliberated, a wedding was taking place in the village of Patish, one of the concrete settlements planted by the Israelis in the barren Negeb. It was midnight, and the wedding guests were still dancing outside the bridegroom's house. By the light of a glaring carbide lamp, the guests whirled and stomped to the wailing music of flute and cymbal. The watchdogs had been barking at the excitement all evening, and nobody noticed when they barked a little louder...
...slogan, "Education for democracy," is a barren one, for democracy can work for evil as well as good. "Democracy is ... simply a means to certain ends . . . And those ends, Justice and Freedom, are in large measure the products of religious faith, of the religious conviction that the human person has dignity and rights because divine wisdom so ordained ... I do not think that academic freedom could long prosper under King Demos, if Democracy should succeed in casting off its religious sanctions...