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ba ruhn

  • n  an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
    the barrens of central Africa
  • s  providing no shelter or sustenance
    barren lands
  • s  not bearing offspring
    a barren woman
  • s  completely wanting or lacking
    writing barren of insight

  • The self-deprecating humor is familiar to the 4,500 residents of this beautiful, barren 450,000-acre (182 hectare) reservation.
  • Fall had visited this barren real estate 14 years earlier and used its nickname as the title of a book, The Street Without Joy, a chronicle of the French battle against the Viet .
  • The barren landscape of post-World War II Germany nourished radical new ideas that would take root not just there but across the Continent.
News & Articles

  • 10:30 MORNING UPDATE: Woman injured in Franks Mill-outer loop collision
    GLASGOW — The Barren County Sheriff’s Office responded to a two-vehicle accident on Veterans Outer Loop on Thursday afternoon that sent a Knob Lick woman to the hospital, according to a BCSO press release.
    June 14, 2013 - The Glasgow Daily Times
  • No Free Lunch
    Barren County School District is finding methods to collect on approximately $20,000 in unpaid student school lunch debt. One of the methods to recoup costs is through small claims court. Seven parents are scheduled to appear in Barren County District Small Claims Court on Friday afternoon.
    June 14, 2013 - The Glasgow Daily Times
  • Bass being caught among trees on Barren River Lake
    GLASGOW — Barren River Lake is back down to within a couple of feet of summer pool and fishing has been good there. Some of my Oldtimer friends were finding bass back in the trees and grass and throwing shallow running crank baits.
    June 13, 2013 - The Glasgow Daily Times
Quotes

  • Sir John Franklin in Las Vegas Review-Journal
    It is extraordinarily important that I, as the leader, am on that wind-swept, barren Lake Albert, with the water disappearing, speaking to a couple and woman holding her baby who say to me: 'Brendan, we have 300 cows to water in the morning and... Brendan Nelson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Nelson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF8lM4C8bIQlYBkwl9dEi_Mjg816w Southern Highland News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://bowral.yourguide.com.au/news/national/general/nelson-vows-to-stay-on-as-liberal-leader/1222095.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHpCpSdq9uCnPGIPzl_Nr3-ez8yKw Apr 12, 2008 8311 11707 barren After UFC 100 in July, Franklin said, the UFC really left themselves kind of barren with nobody to headline their show. They needed me for 103," he said, "and although I would have rather taken some time off, they called me and asked me to...

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