Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the Atomic Energy Commission cautiously confirmed the fact that the first atomic explosion had taken place in its new 5,000-sq.-mi. testing ground on the remote and barren plateau northwest of Las Vegas known as Frenchman Flat. It was the first atomic explosion in the U.S. since the historic test at Alamogordo in 1945. Most Nevadans, warned earlier in the week by the announcement of a non-nuclear "dry run," took the explosion in stride, though it rattled windows, startled early-rising tourists, and was heard as far as 150 miles away...
...fascination lies largely in Author Godden's Ariel-light prose, for her island is notably barren of ideas. The leading idea of the volume is, in fact, just an old coconut: youth will be served, and old age must do the serving. The Book-of-the-Month Club has decided to let its subscribers crack that one in February...
Illinois. Just when Chicago was congratulating itself on an alltime record of 13 days without a single reported homicide,* police found the body of one Joseph Barren, alias "Chicken Joe," in a backyard with a knife in his heart...
...said Russell C. Leffingwell, who at 72 had just stepped down from the chairmanship of J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc., such controls are necessary. But in the twilight period of half-war, half-peace that lies ahead, they would stifle the economy. The basic problem, wrote Leffingwell in Barren's, is to stimulate production, discourage nonessential civilian consumption. Price-fixing, he insisted, would do neither...
...newsman has often felt. Said the paper: "The weekend was so quiet everywhere that putting out a newspaper this week was far from interesting. We believe that this issue won't please our readers much, but really it is not our fault . . . We are going through a barren period, and people do not seem disposed to get killed to provide reporters with copy. Just shows how egotistical people...