Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stress. But for most of us, our bedrooms are our only rooms, not counting the windowless common rooms littered with banana peels and CD jewel boxes. We have no place reserved for quiet and rest. The Harvard houses contain no saunas, no shrines for quiet contemplation. We are bereft of calming influence...
...social group in which their position as non-wage earning mothers could not be justified with same title they might have earned elsewhere as housewives? Was the problem for people in their community that they were really less motivated? Or that they had grown up in a world bereft of evidence that hard work would make a difference...
...modern world, "demystified" and bereft of great books, knowledge and education (even in a moral sense) can only depend on the method of constant criticism and revision (a method, incidentally, to which Aristotle contributed the beginnings of analytic logic). --David Meskill '88, Second-year graduate student in the Department of History
...bickering among foreign-policy advisers, prompted the cancellation two weeks ago of a diplomatic speech at the Richard Nixon library and led Dole to deliver a trademark quip, "I didn't know I had so many advisers on China." The problem, however, is deeper than that: Dole appears bereft of core beliefs on fundamental issues, such as whether the U.S. should extend China's "Most Favored Nation" trade status and whether the U.S. should abandon its longstanding "One China" policy by offering more support for Taiwan...
Although these schools do not have the same resources as elite private boarding schools, they are hardly bereft. Stuyvesant is generously funded by New York in hopes of cultivating the city's best and brightest, while Boston Latin draws funds from a large alumni base...