Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the shadowed haven of the wings, the stage of Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...
...that Talal is popular in the Arab world, that they would run into trouble if they tried to deny him Jordan's throne in favor of Naif. There are other signs that Talal, for his part, realizes he must have the British: without their subsidy and support, tiny, barren Jordan would become a fifth-rate country, easy prey for a powerful neighbor. The London Observer reported that Talal had recently signed a document assuring Britain that he would carry on his father's policies. When his plane stopped in Athens on the way from Switzerland, Talal told reporters...
...husbands. But five per cent of them reach out after M.I.T. men. This fact must be considered significant. Why should Harvard men be favored in such preponderance? The obvious answer is to be found in the superiority of the Coop and the Widener Library as trysting places over the barren laboratories of the Technological Institute...
...Century's editors cheered an equally sturdy dissent by Felix Morley (in Barren's Weekly): "Our whole system of government is based on the assumption that there are certain absolute values, referred to in the Declaration of Independence as the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." Did the Chief Justice of the United States really mean what he said? Quaker Morley gave him the benefit of the doubt: presumably Vinson wrote "at the close of a difficult and trying session" and "did not edit his opinion with customary care...
...strangest place the Fairservis expedition visited was a narrow valley near the Iranian border. Surrounded by deserts and now a barren wasteland itself, the valley must have been a lake bed in some remote period. Later it must have been thickly inhabited. A great wind that rages through the valley has blown the soil away, uncovering town sites, cemeteries and heaps of pottery fragments which now lie exposed on the desert. There the expedition found tools of copper, but there was no evidence that any people had lived in the valley since prehistoric times...