Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...True, devaluation would make British exports easier to sell, but it would also make Britain's imports cost more in terms of sterling. Imports are already cut to the bare essentials. We are more certain that devaluation will increase the cost of imports than we are that it would increase the volume of exports. In the face of the U.S. recession, how do we know we can sell more British goods in the U.S. even if devaluation lowers the dollar price tags? If American domestic prices continue to fall, we would merely have to devalue again. The time...
...Bare bulbs glared through the smoky, crowded room. Caleb ("Picky Pie") Hill, a husky, 28-year-old Negro, was drunk, but the sheriff got handcuffs on him, and began to question witnesses. Suddenly, the sheriff felt his pistol pulled from the holster, turned to find Picky Pie aiming at his head. Hatcher ducked and the bullet went into the ceiling. In the scuffle, the sheriff's pistol got lost. The sheriff took his prisoner back to town and put him in a cell with another Negro in the jail on the second floor of the sheriff's house...
...inches last week in the New York Met meet. Michigan's world record-holder Chuck Fonville is the only athlete who has bettered that distance. Appel has vaulted 14 feet, Wade has run a 4:13 mile, and the freshman Hipple twins, who high jump in their bare feet, generally get up around 6 feet, 2 inches...
...Shanghai. Quipped the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury the next day, before the Communists took it over: "The mayor certainly was sincere about it. He found out what seemed best for his health and promptly did it." By dusk, the western and southern outskirts of the city were bare of troops...
...then goes through some lively calisthenics. Then, in the early morning silence, he leafs through the newspapers, studies state documents. About 5, his barber enters.* At 6, Dutra breakfasts alone on fruit, coffee and rolls. Half an hour later he is ready to receive his staff at his long, bare table under the heavy chandeliers of the ground-floor Salão dos Ministérios. At noon he lunches with his family. When affairs of state permit it, he also dines with his family, then heads for bed promptly at 8. His only recreation is an occasional horseback ride...