Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reactions [March 30] to your article substantiate your point that the world today is truly bereft of any possible common ground on which to arbitrate the present confusion which has enveloped its inhabitants . . . This common ground is based upon a unity in the fundamental concepts: moral principles and standards, and a framework of philosophy about man, the world, and truth in general. It is evident that those who replied to your article in a derisory manner . . . are oblivious of the fact that all laws are based upon man's basic nature. The nature each one of us possesses today...
...since Naguib's coup of last July stripped 33-year-old King Farouk of his crown, Narriman has had to contemplate Farouk's powerful, hairy wrists in exile-first on Capri, finally in a 30-room villa staffed by eight servants in the Alban Hills outside Rome. Bereft of palaces, they pursued pleasures: days at the races, nights at the opera, wee hours at Rome's tame little nightclubs. Each had a Mercedes-Benz, green for him, cherry red for her. Sometimes they appeared separately, 19-year-old Narriman with a coterie of envious, twittering, teen...
...game finally ends when Paulette is taken away by the authorities. Michel, in a fury at his loss, destroys the little cemetery. Paulette, bereft and alone at a relocation center for war orphans, suddenly hears the name Michel spoken in the crowd, and wanders forlornly among a confusion of people in vain search of the one person she loves...
...Administrative Board has reduced Dean Bender's oft-quoted expression, "We have confidence in the maturity and intelligence of Harvard students" to poius sentiment, then, bereft of any application save in the most narrow and unimportant circumstances...
That is how the new party movement stands as of today--a bit confused, a little disorganized, but not bereft of support. Although its probably will not congeal into a single party with a single set of leaders until after the election, its essential composition is clear enough: it is the group of unreconstructed Taft supporters that stubbornly refuses to follow its hero back into the GOP. That they are united more on what they are against than what they are for is shown by the Constitution Party's support of Congressman John Kennedy, Democratic nominee for Senator in Massachusetts...