Word: barrens
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When the pencils do get to work, the Viet Minh would demand large areas that would be economically independent. Since the French control most of the valleys, this meant the French would have to trade rice-producing riverland for barren mountains. If the French had their way, the map would show the French positions as a series of closely grouped goose eggs...
...debris was cleared away. The tunnel extended into the living rock and apparently reached a dead end 121 ft. from the entrance. Dr. Ghoneim, wise in such matters, was not discouraged, and eventually he uncovered the entrance of a second tunnel. Unlike the first, it was not barren. Ranged along it were the doorways of 120 separate chambers, some of them containing jars of grain and other foodstuffs. This was a good omen; the soul of a Pharaoh was usually supplied with alabaster-packaged rations...
...commuter train to Groton offers the same barren, monotonous trip every evening. But a couple of times each week, an argument in one of the cars provides diversion for those sitting nearby. One of the debaters is a critic of the University, carping about the Corporation's stand on ex-Communists on the faculty. His opponent is William Bentinck-Smith who, in varying capacities, has had ample opportunities to defend Harvard...
...Carnival by the Sea, the heavy is Mrs. Albany, an aging invalid whose home, an abandoned coffee shop shaped like a huge coffeepot, stands on the barren dunes of the California coast. In two days' action, well padded with flashbacks, Mrs. Albany racks up a high score in pure malevolence. Among other things, she drives her stepson to alcoholism and her stepdaughter to an early death. She also pushes her only daughter across the brink into insanity. Her husband, a doctor, leaves home and dies in the shack of a friendly doxy...
...stand to consider this strategy according to the results it will have--for themselves, their profession, and the very men they would protect. By opposing McCarthy the present way, they will just help him. Full testimony by Furry and others should show McCarth's committee is plowing a barren field. If, by proving this, they can end the investigations, they will have been serving their consciences much better than they could have hoped...