Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...injections of Western capital, however massive, will have any lasting effect unless their recipients impose upon themselves political and economic discipline. And in Asia, Africa and Latin America there is still a painful dearth of leaders with the courage or wisdom to try to impress upon their people that national prosperity cannot be a gift from outsiders, that it can only be achieved by prolonged effort and by investing the fruits of today's self-denial in tomorrow's production. This, though no one in Rome last week dared say it in so many words, is the first...
Fear of segregationists may have caused the recent dearth of criticism levied against the Supreme Court, a Law School professor suggested yesterday...
Nevertheless, TV could not escape the charges of mediocre imagination, too much shoddy programing, too much imitation of established formulas (there are some 35 cowpokes on TV this year, 62 gumshoes). Such is the dearth of quality that the considerable number of competent shows are often gratefully hailed as excellent, and the handful of really first-rate programs are greeted as virtually miraculous...
Areas to be studied are Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's upper peninsula. In these states the transition from small to large-scale farming, the lack of near-by markets for goods, potential competition from mines along the St. Lawrence Seaway, and a dearth of new industrial development have created grave problems...
...central theme of the essay is clear: "There is a dearth of self-propelled students in the local environment." Or, in other words, we are all too "other-directed" for our own good. "Other-directed," that is, to the point of being individually original, which, in the words of at least one professor in the community, is "a seeming paradox...