Word: bereft
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...whites who invaded that land long ago. Surely one of the oldest realities of the earth is that the dispersal of all population has been by conquest, dispossession and conquest again. And if history could be unwritten, the world simply would not be the world. England would be bereft of the English and France of the French...
...Angeles, where the conviction hung in the sulfurous air that rock was power. The idea keeps turning up in Linda's conversation today that the raw energy of rock must make a statement, whether it is Jagger's statement of nihilistic mockery, her own lady-bereft keening, or the songs raging against the war that began to come out of Southern California in the late...
...President's Men, and in the face of economic and political threats to the paper, proved Publisher Katharine Graham's courage. Hard to top all that-last year's exposure of Congressman Wayne Hays and his dolly seems much less momentous. Cartoonist Herblock is bereft without Nixon to kick around. The paper is suffering from post-Watergate blahs...
...folk hero on merit, and Reuven Katz, his attorney, hopes to make Bench a millionaire before John becomes 30. Bench sings. He sings on key and with a quiet intensity, but all the songs are sad. One tells of a broken marriage. In another an old man is bereft of everything but a dog and watermelon wine. A third describes young people who are desperate in a wash of ruined dreams...
...hungry venality of Richard M. Nixon. But few are the Cassandras today who perceive the painful parallels between Jimmy Carter and the much-maligned Mr. Nixon. Humorless and ambitious, highly sensitive to negative press coverage, Carter emerges an ironic product of the Watergate mentality. He and his counterparts appear bereft of all commitment. They are masters of ad hoc politics, practitioners of a winning "master plan...