Word: wastelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raccoon on Holyoke Street, we finally gathered. A very big raccoon indeed. A raccoon that we quickly forgot about as we sped down Mem Drive, crossed the River, thanked the cabbie and stepped into a nuclear wasteland...
Whatever the cause of the wasteland, a few years after the disaster, the government sent death squads of prisoners to cover up the contaminated soil with sand. The workers were housed in special barracks, and many probably died from intense doses of radiation. Sometime after Tumerman's visit, Soviet authorities seem to have completely given up on the region, evacuating all farmers, destroying their houses and fencing the area off with barbed wire. Finally, officials decided to use the devastated zone as a radiological training ground for army troops...
...logic prevailed, Fao would be awarded not to the winner but to the loser of the struggle for this wet, muddy wasteland. Heavy trucks carrying Iraqi soldiers and supplies to the front rumble over roads running along levees, above the marshy terrain approaching Fao. The Iranians, using flat-bottomed boats with powerful outboard engines, roar across the blue-green waters of the gulf to deliver ammunition and reinforcements, who bring the latest , exhortations of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...fertilizer suffocated the Yard last week, its freshman residents were experiencing a run-in of their own in Harvard's procedural wasteland: the computer test of the quantitative reasoning requirement...
This Rocky of the teen-age wasteland has spent his life avoiding the bout of the social arena, not just out of fear, but because he doesn't believe in its reward. "It's all so superficial," he proclaims with annoying insistence. So Lucas seems destined to remain a loner, capturing bugs for the school terrarium. But then, the inevitable happens. Lucas falls in love. As a dubious knight in shining armor, Lucas must fight for his fair maiden in the dread land of superficiality...