Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British to me," he said with a smile. "Usually it was too dangerous to hunt. But once I was awakened by a goat prancing near me and could not resist. I have never tasted anything so good." Grivas kept constantly on the move-and eventually moved from the barren mountains into the towns. He spent the better part of the last two years shifting from house to house in Limassol (pop. 36,500), right under the noses of the British. A trusted deacon in the Limassol church passed notes for Grivas to black-veiled women at prayer, for relay...
...crisis comes on the tenth anniversary of its conversion from a lowly dependency of the British Commonwealth Relations Office to a full-fledged Canadian province. To thousands of transatlantic air travelers who have seen the fueling base at Gander airport, the province appears to be little more than a barren rock jutting out into the North Atlantic sea and air lanes. It is a land of clammy summer fogs and lashing North Atlantic storms; its climate and soil are so forbidding that the islanders must import a full 90% of their food. St. John's was the last spot...
...answers: Elizabeth was illegitimate in the sense that her father, Henry VIII, had his marriage with her mother, Anne Boleyn, declared invalid; 2) evidence is that Elizabeth was barren; 3) she had fine red-gold hair, and if she wore a wig, it was for reasons of fashion; 4) her relations with nine successive Popes were stormy, but she showed some signs of restraint. In the Prayer Book, designed for worship in the church of which she was the head, Protestant Elizabeth with her own hand struck out the words:"From the Bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Good...
...Nobel-prizewinning biologist with a yen to help humanity. His secret weapon is desoxyribonucleic acid. Injected into a plant or tree, this chemical will increase phenomenally the size and quality of the yield. An enterprising Italian government official named Pozzo feels that this is just the cure for the barren poverty of southern Italy. Above the Bay of Salerno, on some terraced soil blessed by Pozzo's cardinal uncle, Harry Wesley sets out to grow a super...
...brothers-a Maronite monk named Father Genadrios Mourani. 32, and Seminarian Jean Mourani. 23-arrived in nearby Tripoli with their cousin. Father Georges Mourani. 34. Hiring a taxi, the three Syrians set out in the rainswept dusk for Kobeyat, passing through a spectral countryside of deserted, barren hills. As they rounded a curve on the approach to the village, the night crackled with gunfire. Father Genadrios was killed in the first fusillade. The cabby stopped his car and fled...