Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bring out number, weight and measure [and coordinated financial aid timetables] in a year of dearth." Jerald Reneau...
Like virtually everything in the theater, the revival is an enterprise of high risk. In addition to normal hazards, it must compete with the playgoer's memories of past productions or expectations aroused in the classroom or the library. In an era of relative creative dearth like the present, a spate of revivals comes to the fore as the theater's defensive mechanism of survival. Some are delightful, some are dreadful, all are instructive; it is invariably interesting to see what the effects of time, changing values or an altered milieu have had on a classic. Some current...
...program. Be fore long, the characters are asking each other, and the audience, what the hell they're doing there. A beer-swilling football fan issues periodic razzberries from the balcony, while from a front-row seat in the stalls an exasperated Establishment chap complains loudly about the dearth of any sense or decent language from the stage...
...already facing an emergency. Two weeks ago, scarcities of natural gas, the region's most commonly used fuel, forced suppliers to stop servicing customers who have "interruptible" contracts. Generally, these are factories and other businesses which are capable of converting to oil or propane. Because of the dearth of refineries in the Midwest, oil is scarcer in Iowa than in other parts of the country, and what reserves are available are being drained quickly...
Souvanna told Simms that whatever happens, "we shall certainly survive." But time is not on his side. In dusty Vientiane, Simms found "no dearth of traffic, from expensive Mercedes, to ex-army Jeeps, to whole schools of motor scooters. It takes a little while to discover that something is not quite the same as in most cities. Then one gradually notices that the driver of the black Mercedes is a beautiful Laotian girl wearing the traditional skirt of glossy silk, heavily embroidered in gold, and that the driver in the Jeep behind her, wearing a pair of smart Levi...