Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she returned amid the festivities to re-don her brogans, she found only half of them in evidence. Semi-shoeless, the bereft Freshman remains bi a quandry. No Crimson editors were known to have attended the dance...
...even the well-sheltered pygmies go up in the explosion, the bereft earth may have to fall back on the descendants of "the winged insects [which came] into existence about 250 million years ago." Could these ants and bees "acquire even that glimmer of intellectual understanding that man has possessed in his day," they might rebuild civilization-looking back on "the advent of the mammals, and the brief reign of the human mammal, as almost irrelevant episodes, 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...playing a deeper game. The Kremlin may be waiting for the economic collapse of Capitalism, i.e. the United States, which it has long proclaimed inevitable. If such a collapse occurs, the United States will be unable to carry out its commitments, and the countries of Western Europe will be bereft of hope of aid by democratic methods. At this time the Communist Party in each country will be able to say, "We told you so." By putting themselves on the record as irrevocably opposed to the Marshall Plan, the Communists in the various countries have put themselves in a position...
...somewhere in the southern state of "Missitucky." The gold's magic powers turn bellowing Senator Billboard Rawkins first into a black man and then into a kindly one; take the kinks out of the romance between the Irishman's daughter (Ella Logan) and her Missitucky beau. And, bereft of his pot of gold, the leprechaun gradually-and gratefully-turns into...
Producers.... In no field of art, in no country . . . are questions of taste and talent passed upon by persons so totally lacking in culture, so bereft of knowledge and judgment as are the producers of Hollywood. . . . They have an extraordinary nose for what the public wants. So it is that they wax rich while contributing to the intellectual impoverishment of the nation...