Word: bareli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treasury is as bare as the school board president's bottom
...wall-papering. Gillen says Howe at first told him to do an extensive remodeling job, but that halfway through--when he told her he had already done $1000 worth of construction--she told him it was too expensive. "After she told me [to cut back] I did the bare minimum, because if she didn't want me to do a lot, I didn't want to do it, either," Gillen says. But Howe said Gillen's work was shoddy, and she refused...
...give them a call and get them down here." Seated just inside the door, a young woman asks all comers, "Are you going to box?" Spectators have to pay a $2 cover charge. Fighters who go three rounds get in free. And that rule about no T shirts or bare feet is waived for them...
...next bout, 182-lb. Slaymaker, fighting in blue-denim overalls and bare feet, faces Gerard Ranare, a younger (20) fighter of the same weight. Slaymaker, like McDoniels before him, is slowed by his prefight drinking; Ranare is pure concentration. He bloodies Slaymaker's nose with a right uppercut, and the fight is stopped by the referee. Slaymaker is helped to his feet, congratulates Ranare with a hug, and a forced smile...
Just before the conclave began, Joseph Malula, the stocky black Cardinal from Zaire, sat dejectedly on a wooden chair in a bare seminarian's room and scornfully waved his hand at the Vatican vista outside the window. "All that?all that imperial paraphernalia. All that isolation of the Pope. All that medieval remoteness and inheritance that makes Europeans think that the church is only Western. All that tightness that makes them fail to understand that young countries like mine want something different. They want simplicity. They want Jesus Christ. All that, all that must change." Fifty hours later, Karol Wojtyla...