Word: barrens
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...lose. A starving band of refugees, uprooted by the Turks from another village, appear at the gates of Lycovrissi and plead for bread and a chance to start new lives in the town. But, led by their priest himself, the people of Lycovrissi hoot the newcomers off to a barren neighboring hill, where they settle miserably in caves...
...thirds of Russia is either barren or too cold for cultivation under present methods, but underground, say Soviet geologists, there is half the world's iron and almost as much of its coal, half its known petroleum, one-third of its manganese...
...militarily and financially, never had she known such general instability and discontent. And never had Mary herself sunk so low in her own esteem. Her handsome husband, after perfunctorily doing his duty in the hope of providing England with a Catholic heir, walked out on her when she proved barren. Calais, England's proud outpost in France, fell to the French. Ill and miserable, she found that her last days were to be her worst, for it was on her deathbed that the Privy Council forced her to name as her successor the detested Protestant Elizabeth, daughter of Anne...
Maybe the aura of loyalty and honor blinds the freshman to the supposedly barren nature of his life. At any rate, it is usually not until upperclass years that the Princeton first debates the merit of Charlie over Ascetic. When he does rebel, however, it seems to be with the energy of a closely-caged tiger. He wants his liquor, his car, and his Sex After Seven, and no assurances from the deans will convince him that abstinence is the best policy...
...scene is a barren mountain area in southern Italy; the time, just after the liberation. Rocco de Donatis, the local Communist leader, is growing death-tired of party lines. "You have the sadness," an old woman tells him, "of one who set out to go very far and ends up by finding himself where he began. Didn't they teach you at school that the world is round...