Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Midshipmen extended the Crimson to the final freestyle relay last year in Annapolis before succumbing 57-56, but have been decimated by graduation and, as a result, do not pose as serious a threat today. A dearth of outstanding freshmen seems to indicate that the Naval Academy is losing ground to the other Eastern swimming powers, largely because of its inability to keep pace in the recruiting derby now being waged by the Ivy colleges...
Councillor Walter J. Sullivan placed the responsibility for the current dearth of parking spaces on the universities. "It's high time Harvard University restricted students from bringing cars into Cambridge. The universities should cooperate with us. We've been putting up with this for years," he said. He noted especially the areas around the Hotel Continental, and Mather and Kirkland Houses...
...aggressively athletic household that can send a young man to the big leagues or the psychiatrist's couch. His father, a onetime truckdriver and furniture salesman, had been a semipro catcher. It was his idea for Johnny to become a catcher; he reasoned that there was a dearth of good ones in the majors and that catching would be the quickest path to success. Ted even created a Little League team in Binger just for Johnny and his brothers. When that did not work out, he drove them 17 miles to Anardarko to play. Meanwhile Johnny glued himself...
...York City is an exception; medical schools there report a shortage of suitable cadavers. Nationwide, there is still a dearth of organs for transplants, such as kidneys...
...Corporation's statement of April 19 ex-planning the reasons behind its decision was both hypocritical and immoral. The Corporation first said that divestiture by Harvard would not cause Gulf to withdraw from Angola. The Corporation pointed out that there would be "no dearth" of other investors willing to purchase Gulf stock...