Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passes are 2,000-ft.-high barren outcrops of granite and sandstone, sparsely dotted with desert scrub. Beyond is the vast loneliness of the desert. The only evidence of man is a narrow, two-lane asphalt road that slithers along for 20 miles through the minefields and war wreckage surrounding the passes, and the bristling patch of antennas that mark the sophisticated, underground listening post at Umm Khisheib, northwest of Giddi. Except for Egyptian, Israeli and U.N. soldiers, the only people the Americans are likely to see are camel-riding Bedouins eerily wandering through the emptiness with no apparent destination...
...cheap labor reserve force for South Africa's ever-expanding industrial sector. More than 70 per cent of South Africa's population are required to make a scattered 13 per cent of the total land area their permanent homes, and that 13 per cent is largely infertile and barren. South Africa's rich mineral deposits and its cities are all in white areas. African adults--both men and women--leave their families on the Bantustans to eke out a subsistence with primitive agricultural techniques on barren land, while they look for jobs in the mines and factories outside...
...WORLD of Cockpit is not only barren, it is random and irrational. Tarden's obsession with power is a way of fighting the absolute dominion of chance and accident, a way (he reverses Faulkner's phrase) of surviving where most people only know how to endure. Tarden blinds an armed attacker by luring him into a room used for treating photographic plates with powerful quartz lights. That man, he says, was a fool for taking so few precautions. Tarden, on the other hand, hooks his feet around the legs of chairs so they can't be pulled out from under...
...even Tarden cannot endure beyond the limits of chance and his own mortality. His tireless self-confidence finally shaken by a narrow escape from a broken elevator in one of his high-rise apartment buildings, he conjures up this final, barren image...
...Israel's part, the accord means yielding several thousand square miles of the barren but strategic Sinai Desert, won during the 1967 war. On Egypt's part, it means virtual acceptance of a state of peaceful coexistence with Israel, 27 years and four wars after the founding of the Jewish nation. Says Egyptian Presidential Press Spokesman Tahsin Bashir: "If this process continues, relations between the Arabs and Israel will never be the same again...