Word: bared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bare Shelves. Jobs were plentiful in the expanding economy. The unemployment problem of last spring evaporated in the busy summer months. Not only were last winter's jobless put to work, but 200,000 immigrants and new workers were added to payrolls as well. Employment prospects now look so good that the government has decided to reverse the usual policy and keep the immigration doors open all winter to skilled workers...
...vanished in the night, the men have nothing but the clothes they wear. There is no food, no firewood, no water. Novelist Roberts has a perfect chance to sort out the men from the weaklings. Some of them lie down and wait for death or rescue. But on that bare rock in those freezing temperatures, death is almost certain to get there first...
...movie, and the point strikes deep. The picture is sometimes a penny dreadful, because the scriptwriters have seldom consulted their hearts as carefully as they have calculated their effects; and sometimes it is an oldfashioned, hellfire sermon against moral indolence. At its best, though, the story lays bare the naked truth of human bondage, and this truth shines like a sword...
...bare plot, however, serves only as a frame on which the playwright hangs his opinions on social reform, religion, and the class struggle. At times, as in the first scene of act two, O'Casey ignores the story altogether and inserts songs, a ballet, and passages of almost pure lyrical poetry. As a result, the play generates considerable emotional intensity but lacks direction...
...aroused against the crime, and anxious to see justice done." The first part of this statement is highly conjectural, while the latter part begs for definition. What does he mean by justice? Wasn't justice promulgated when Bryant and Milan were exonerated. Many white southerners would think so. The bare and ugly fact remains that there is no such thing as justice for a Negro in the South if we interpret justice to mean a minimum amount of fairness. I need not pursue this point any further; the legal history of the south in relation to its Negro inhabitants leaves...