Word: barren
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...Yorkshiremen stared stonily at the works, pronounced them "poozling" and just plain "dommed silly." Said one housewife: "Eee-ee. Did you ever? I wouldn't even have that in our Nellie's attic." Armitage was not surprised. Said he: "The social atmosphere is so puritan and esthetically barren that any artist who fights his way to any kind of recognition there is bound to do all right in the rest of the world...
...returns to his first love, flying. His Canadian-born hero, Johnny Pascoe, has been barnstorming the world since 1915 and, now in his 60s, operates a small airfield at back-country Buxton in Tasmania. Flying a mercy mission to rescue a child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers to fly in a doctor through rough weather, over mountains and along the unmapped coast...
...partners will spend millions more before they are through. Tibaitata's biggest search is to discover ways to utilize the sun-seared, flash-flooded llanos, barren plains that comprise 60% of Colombia's land, house only 2% of its population. It is a search that not only Colombia but all South America watches with mounting interest. With its population growing at the world's fastest rate, by the year 2000 Latin America will be second only to Asia in numbers, and in desperate need of productive land...
...Dubos. In Paris bitter newspaper articles charged that Dubos had been killed because he was "too much loved in Moslem homes." But in a final, smuggled letter to Dubos' parents. "Colonel" Amirouche, commander of the F.L.N.'s Third Military District, offered a rationalization as old, and as barren, as the hills. Wrote Amirouche: "Please believe that the execution is not a gesture of vengeance or of sterile rage, but has been forced on us by the inhuman treatment meted out by your army toward our men captured on the field of battle...
Starting in 1920 as an aerial taxi service for ranchers deep in Australia's barren, blazing outback, Qantas built up a flying-doctor service, hauled emergency well parts, food and anything else settlers wanted. By the 1930s, Qantas had expanded, flying 14-passenger flying boats on a thrice-weekly service to London. But it was only after World War II, in which Qantas' Catalinas did everything from evacuating 24,000 wounded to dropping supplies to besieged Aussie troops, that the line joined the international big league...