Word: wasteland
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...will, of course, do nothing about this until the land has been cleared and turned into a desolate wasteland. Then a still famished population, with no further Indian tribal lands to occupy, will doubtless become an object of pity for the U.N., which will then be able to launch yet another Operation Begging Bowl...
...advertising promising, as CBS put it, "quality programming for the young." Unfortunately, few of the shows live up to that billing. Though all three networks are preparing occasional specials for other time slots, Saturday morning-the most concentrated stretch of children's television-remains a particularly bleak wasteland, where flashes of wit or originality are rarely seen...
...jungle, contrary to popular belief, does not reclaim cleared land that has been depleted. Unless modern techniques of crop rotation and fertilization are used -techniques few of the impoverished colonists know-nutrients could be washed away a few years after the land is cleared, turning it into a desolate wasteland where only scrub brush would grow. "We honestly don't know what is going to happen if the forest is cut down," admits the agrarian-reform program's Jorge Pankov. "But when your belly is so empty that you have to steal to fill...
...Chinese troops swarmed south through 14,500-foot-high passes along Thag La Ridge, a windswept rim along part of the disputed border between Tibet and northeastern India. At the same time, more Chinese forces sprang into action 900 miles to the west in another disputed area, the sere wasteland known as Aksai Chin, or Desert of White Stone...
...enclaves of American power is almost too great to believe. One woman wrote of her pre-refugee life in the Plain of Lars, a strategic valley in Northern Laos which was formerly littered with huge stone cisterns thought to be ancient funeral urns. It is now a deserted wasteland. She reported: "Every day and every night the planes came to drop bombs on us. We lived in boles in order to protect our lives . . . . Thusly, I saw the life of the population and the dead people on account of thewar with many airplanes in the region of Xiengkhouang. Until there...