Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showed little or no recolonization by mangrove tree species after three or more years. . . . Without vegetation, the area obviously cannot support most of the bird and ground animal species associated with the previously existing mangrove forests. A possibly important exception are crabs, large numbers of which were observed in barren areas. By devouring seedlings, crabs may be retarding revegetation. There are signs of erosion along the denuded coastlines but as yet they are slight. Major typhoons, which on the average strike the mangroves about every five years, have not occurred since herbicide was sprayed...
...Sexual Politics devotes some 25 pages to mauling him, and helped prompt the Harper's riposte. Kate loses many a battle with Mailer in the article before she winds up winning the war. "By any major literary perspective." says a scornful Mailer, "the land of Millett is a barren and mediocre terrain, its flora reminiscent of a Ph.D. tract, its roads a narrow argument, and its horizon low." Kate is "nothing if not a pug-nosed wit," and "the yaws of her distortion were nicely hidden by the smudge pots of her indignation." As for Millett's views...
Aldrin narrated movies of Apollo 14 and the barren surface of the moon. The film began with the lunar landing, and then showed the two astronauts deploying scientific equipment, in between wild, floating races across the surface of the moon. These antics brought a word of explanation from Aldrin, who said. "Well you don't have to wonder where the term lunatic came from...
SLOWLY, deliberately, the white-clad figure emerged from the spindly spacecraft and stepped into the glaring sunlight. In every direction stretched the barren hills and" ridges of a forbidding landscape that has remained virtually unchanged since the moon was created. Alan Shepard could hardly describe what he saw. "It certainly is a stark place here at Fra Mauro," he said. Then, as his image flickered onto millions of TV screens back on earth, the 47-year-old Navy captain took the last two steps down the ladder of Antares, the lunar lander. Finally his heavy boots scuffed the soft, grayish...
...irony of an Anouilh or a Giraudoux, Peter Stone rests his book, derived from Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach, on the pitiably thin humor of anachronism. Except for one beguiling ballad, I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You, Richard Rodgers' score is almost barren of melodic appeal, and Martin Charnin's lyrics could have been ticked off by a metronome...