Word: wasteland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procession sped across the bomb-scarred wasteland from Tokyo to Yokohama. Through his thick glasses Hirohito gazed on his country's devastation. Along the bumpy route his people-shabby, shivering, shambling-greeted their ruler's bizarre cavalcade with bewildered reverence...
...WASTELAND - Jo Sinclair - Harper...
John told the psychiatrist all about "the wasteland" in which he and his family lived. Old Man Braunowitz, a Russian immigrant, was a grimy, scholarly, embittered man, who had nagged his simple wife into animal dullness and shirked his responsibilities as a father. Strong-willed daughter Deborah had backed up her mother and made herself the "father" of the family-and a Lesbian to boot. Daughter Rosannah had dutifully earned her living by serving in bars-which, to John's tortured, hypersensitive imagination, meant that she dallied with the barflies. Daughter Sarah had fled into the arms...
...inch of rain since April 1. In the Midwest, summer's first good hot spell perked up the backward corn crop and the farmers' hopes. In the Pacific Northwest, hot winds pushed giant fires through unnaturally dry forests (see cut), near the 250,000-acre wasteland left by Oregon's "Tillamook burn...
Spheres in the Wasteland. Conquered Germany was sure to be a troublesome prize. The Germans themselves were doing all in their power to make it so (see The Occupation). But the conquerors hardly needed the Germans' assistance. The plan of occupation was enough...