Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another entry to the list of potential trouble spots around the world: the barren but mineral-rich Atacama Desert at the narrow border between Chile and Peru...
Richard Lipkin, a sophomore at Columbia Preparatory School in New York City, represents Benin. Lipkin described Benin Thursday as "43,000 square miles of barren land...
...between the working father and the nurturing mother has set the foundation for an inflexible social institution, including much more than bearing children. Since the first stirrings of the patriarchal system, she says, women have been valued only by the number of children--particularly sons--they have borne, and barren women have been deigned purposeless. Women are seen through a patriarchal prism; as mothers and lovers, they are trapped by self-fulfilling role patterns. Daughters grow up to become mothers, forced to supply all the emotional support their children will receive, unable to relate on an individual, unstandardized level...
...players left the field, the orange-leaved maple trees swayed in the wind behind them. In a few weeks, the trees will be barren, the leaves gone. But Saturday was the glory day for the Princeton booters, and the trees wore their colors boldly to mark the occasion...
From the inside, they all looked pretty much the same save an occasional starspangled ping-pong table or the number of initials carved in the woodwork. Most had barren living rooms upstairs and basements with long dark-wood bars, ping-pong tables, and bench-lined, graffiti decorated walls...