Word: barrens
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...bright and seemingly placid Sunday morning. A two-vehicle Israeli patrol was traveling along a winding road in the barren foothills of the Chouf mountains southeast of Beirut. As the troops rounded a sharp curve, they passed a white Mercedes parked by the side of the road. Suddenly four men in the car jumped out and sprayed the patrol with automatic-weapons fire. Two of the soldiers were killed instantly and three others wounded. The attackers escaped...
...CARPET treatment has, indeed an air of unreality. The campus and Square have been pulled into ship-shape like some last-minute dress rehearsal. Fences and scaffolds have disappeared, "green miracle" grass has been rolled or sprayed over barren wastes. "All that grass, just so people can sit on it," one current junior marvelled Even the expensive poster kiosks were stripped of their characteristic artwork and painted black...
...mostly flowers and things like that," he explains. After living in a barren environment like Antarctica for a year, where there is absolutely nothing alive it really hits you in the face...
...world. The civilized world has long since declared the white supremacist regime an international outlaw, and for good reason. Non-whites comprise 84 percent of the population of South Africa, yet, under apartheid, they cannot vote. The entire Black population is being forcibly removed to the so-called bantustans, barren wastelands which together constitute only 13 percent of the land in South Africa Blacks are only permitted to leave these "native homelands" to work at unskilled factory or mining jobs, at one-tenth the average wage of whites. Blacks must live in single-sex barracks, or in ghetto townships deprived...
...PART OF TEXAS in which these children live, work play and write is not the stark and barren flatland of cliche. Instead the area, generally termed the "Hill Country", is one of the more beautiful parts of Texas packed with culture and "warm material" for the imagination to feed on: it does not suffer from the dryness that afflicts other parts of the state. The starkness resides, instead, in the meager conditions under which these children must live...