Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...means benign, gift of the Khan was the plague. Originating in the jungles of southern China and Burma, bubonic plague traveled with Mongol armies and then from caravan to caravan till it reached the Crimea in 1347. From there it would take a third of all Europeans. Bereft of labor and talent, the fledgling nation states were pressed to maximize tax collection, bureaucracy and state control of the force of arms, leading to the heightened competitiveness of the West just as Europe's ships sailed for the riches of a distant empire. The rest is the history of another world...
Topics like "Will We Still Need To Have Sex?" grab the reader's attention, but your issue reads like a condensed version of a futuristic science magazine--bereft of heart, soul, news and politics. HARRIET LERNER Topeka, Kans...
...TRAGEDY OF IT ALL: Besides the kids, talk-show hosts are bereft. M.J.'s spokesman asked the public not to "speculate upon the reasons for their decision...
Last year, Browning compiled a 0.99 goals-against average and a .814 save percentage. Her departure leaves the team bereft of an experienced goalkeeper...
...bereft lover can be playfully vindictive, as in the up-tempo (You Remember) The Way It Never Was, where even the girl-group la-la-las in the background have the whiplash of a taunt in them. Or she can try to take the long view. In So It Goes a woman hears about the end of an affair in whispers; the news has the impact of a sudden death in the family. Yet, she tells herself, "The spring lies waiting beneath the frozen ground/ And I'll be seein' you around/ So it goes...