Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Located about eight miles southwest of Maui, the 45-sq.-mi. Hawaiian islet of Kahoola we consists mostly of arid red earth and barren rock. It is inhabited only by about 400 wild goats. To the U.S. Navy, the island is an ideal target range; since 1941, pilots have blasted it with millions of tons of bombs, shells and rockets. But to native Hawaiians, Kahoolawe is sacred ground, home of the gentle rain goddess Hina...
...barren territory is located on the western shore of the 17-mile-wide strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate of sorrows" in Arabic), which links the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean. More than 70 ships, including many oil tankers, pass through the strait every day, to and from the southern end of the Suez Canal. Moderate Arab states bordering the Red Sea-Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia-fear that the Soviet Union, already well established on the eastern side of the strait in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, may have designs on Djibouti in a move...
...that domain is nearly infinite. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, one of the westernmost, boasts a steaming crater, a heat-blasted desert and flows of black lava that lead down to the warm Pacific off the island of Hawaii. Acadia National Park is as green as Hawaii Volcanoes is barren. Cool, thickly forested hills march down to the Atlantic off the coast of Maine, where the water is icy enough to turn the hardiest of swimmers as blue as the summer sky in a matter of minutes...
...created each year. Thus there is little or no resentment against foreign investors, save for the lunatic fringe of the I.R.A. In fact, the Irish color the overseas invasion with a touch of wit. Asahi, the $1.8 billion Japanese chemical concern, planted a $100 million textile factory in the barren wilds of Mayo, a western county haunted by memories of famine and emigration. Its peasantry have always been so poor that after the mere mention of "Mayo" they intoned the prayer "God help us." Now that Asahi is there, a local poet, with an eye toward more potential investors, wants...
...wrote that "to the extent that it becomes accepted in any culture that religion is largely an affair of the heart or of the intuitive qualities of the mind and that the rational mind is irrelevant or worse, so far it will be believed that the rational faculties are barren or perhaps dangerous...