Word: bared
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YEREVAN, U.S.S.R.--Rescuers working around the clock with every-thing from their bare hands to fiber optic cameras have pulled more than 18,000 people from earthquake wreckage, officials said yesterday...
Last week a decree went out from the Bethlehem city council that will make Christmas 1988 the gloomiest yet. To express solidarity with the Arab cause, the leaders ordered historic Manger Square to be bare of the usual tinsel and twinkling lights. The city is also canceling the annual Boy Scout parade and its reception for visiting dignitaries. Moreover, many citizens say they are too dispirited this year to hold their customary family celebrations. The new Latin patriarch Michel Sabbah, a pointed critic of Israel's policy toward Arab residents, will still lead the centuries-old procession across the square...
...Mexican people. He finds himself in a climate of political turmoil, with no clear mandate for himself or his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and a bigger and more vocal opposition in Congress than ever before. Having won what the opposition charges was a fraud-laden election, with a bare majority of 50.7 percent--the worst showing ever for a PRI candidate (who always wins)--Salinas enters office with a less than impressive political mandate...
Stockholm is sunless for 17 hours a day in December, and London gets 15 days of rain. Greek villages hibernate for the winter, Loire valley inns close their shutters, and, but for the evergreens and skiers, the Black Forest is bare. Surely these are reasons enough for the traveler to stay away...
George Bush's White House will be a little gray when he gets there. The thick paint has been dissolved and washed away, and bare sandstone walls are visible for the first time since 1817. But that will be a minor inconvenience for the new occupant of the grandest working home in the U.S. "It has never been in better shape," says Chief Usher Gary Walters, whose staff of 93 chases the dust tracked in by a million and a half tourists a year. The thought is echoed by curator Rex Scouten, who presides over the 38,000 pieces...