Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the October news that Britain had exploded her first atom bomb in the barren wastes of the Monte Bello Islands north of Australia, a proud Prime Minister declared that William George Penney, the physicist who directed the project, would be knighted as a reward. Last week, at Buckingham Palace, without waiting to include him in the usual honors list, Queen Elizabeth II made Penney a Knight Commander of the British Empire...
...abuse. To the west, condors soar over abandoned Spanish silver mines near icy, blue Titicaca, highest navigable lake in the world; in the remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle whose rich soil could easily feed all Bolivia if the mountain Indians would only move there...
...worthy effort to avoid trumped-up melodrama, The Brave Don't Cry sometimes seems barren of drama as well. Though it does not dig into its theme as deeply as the German Kameradschaft (1931) and the British The Stars Look Down (1939), it mines its particular dramatic vein, i.e., the ennobling dignity of man's courage, with honesty and fidelity...
...Circus (1928). The picture often comes close to a halt with lethargic talk and lackluster philosophizing. Chaplin didn't intend Limelight to be a comedy; he calls it "a two-handkerchief movie." But most moviegoers should find one handkerchief ample. As drama, the picture is largely barren: the clown is not really in love with the girl nor she with him, although she tries to be, out of gratitude. Her heart's desire is a young composer (played by Chaplin's 26-year-old son Sydney). Since the leading characters are only dancing a minuet, they...
Smallwood's assignment would stagger any ordinary salesman. The bleak island of Newfoundland and the mainland territory of Labrador, which has been part of Newfoundland for nearly 200 years, are among Canada's most forbidding wildernesses. Much of the land is barren and rocky, dotted with lakes and great bogs. In its 154,734 sq. mi., an area almost as big as California, only three towns have more than 5,000 people. There is still no cross-island highway, only a narrow-gauge railroad that arcs across the island but does not touch one hamlet in ten. Newfoundlanders...