Word: bared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of these really explain the bare fact that the favored Crimson was never ahead. The score was tied 2-2 at the end of the first period, and most observers expected the varsity to pull ahead permanently early in the second. The period was instead a bogged-down affair with play alternately concentrated in each team's defensive zone...
Unlike her husband, Maggie O'Connor went in for petty capers. Whenever the cupboard was bare, she would call two or three of Bobby's cronies to a garage owned by her brother-in-law (who also has a record), and they would go off to rob a drugstore or some small, out-of-the-way shop. Since last June, according to Chicago police, Maggie has probably had a hand in some 100 holdups, has been positively linked to 30. Her working clothes usually included a babushka and, oftentimes, adhesive tape over the five moles...
Since Swiss-born Architect Le Corbusier uttered his famous dictum, "A house is a machine to live in," his followers have outdone themselves in paring down structures to their bare bones. While their efforts, seen from the outside, have often produced some handsome glass-walled slabs, the effect on the inside has too often been that of a streamlined, air-conditioned nightmare. To counteract these trends, a handful of modern architects have moved back towards rough tex tures and hand-worked surfaces to get away from the "over-calipered look...
...costumes (by Rolf Gerard), and for once the decor onstage was brighter than the intermission melee in Sherry's bar. Highlights: ¶ Living murals in the opening tavern scene, with a pair of bacchantes astride barrels, pouring wine and beer into golden goblets and steins waved by bare, disembodied arms...
Inside the tanks, most of the prisoners gazed impassively at the bare walls, muttered sullenly among themselves, glanced longingly at a TV set that had been turned off when the visitors arrived. Some played cards, others read Confidential or lay down on their cots and covered their heads...