Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constitutional monarchy of Britain had long since been bereft of power; Edward's abdication seriously diminished its authority and prestige. George VI spent most of his reign re-establishing them. Approving the man, the people gradually recovered their reverence for his office...
...sentiments, sued successfully to bar Bertrand Russell from his appointment to teach mathematics and logic at the College of the City of New York. In a melodramatic orgy of name-calling, his writings were attacked as "lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, atheistic, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful and bereft of moral fiber." Ten years later, the Nobel Prize Committee handed down a dissenting opinion by giving him its 1950 award for literature...
...strange inactivity reflected a cynical confidence that his grip on the country was so strong that he did not have to campaign. But some observers wondered whether the desperate illness of his wife and co-ruler might not have left him at least temporarily bereft of the power of decision and the will to fight...
...National League, Philadelphia's Whiz Kids had seemed set to win in a downhill glide. On Sept. 19 they were 7½ games ahead of the Boston Braves, nine games ahead of the third-place Brooklyn Dodgers. Then things began to happen. Bereft of star Southpaw Curt Simmons, who had been called up by the National Guard (TIME, Aug. 7), the Phillie pitching staff fell apart at the seams. At the same moment, the hitters stopped hitting, and the infielders began booting ground balls. The Phillies lost eight of their next eleven games...
...Fritz Bultman, 30, confined himself largely to black, white and grey arrangements of what looked like moldy bones. According to the catalogue foreword, his pictures were not really abstract: "Rather they are religious, or moral, bereft of realistic pictorial detail for the same reason philosophy is shorn of particular verbal description of the life whose meaning it explores...