Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservationists' remedy for the surpluses is as plain as the nose on a moose's face: let the Government release a modest amount of ammunition to hunters (dealers' shelves are now bone-bare). They point out that such hunting is not only necessary to maintain wildlife population at an optimum level, but also taps a potential food supply of more than one-quarter billion pounds of meat-plus feathers...
...Censorship "without a parallel anywhere in the world. . . . Only rarely was I permitted to send anything except the bare text of official announcements...
Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts managed only by a bare majority to oust the Hertzog Government and lead South Africa into war in 1939. But his Government was committed not to send troops outside the continental borders. Last week, by a vote of 75-to-49 in the Assembly and 21-to-6 in the Senate, Smuts obtained Parliament's permission to have South African volunteers participate in the invasion of Europe. He smiled happily when Senator Sarel François Alberts, an Anglophobe veteran of the Boer War, announced that despite his age (70) he was ready...
There were and still are other sources of friction, dangerous as a bare nail in a shoe. General Bissell is by report an able soldier who respects the rulebooks and goes by them. Chennault is an able soldier who has no use for "the book." Result is constant friction. It is increased by the fact that his supply of planes (of which he hopes to have a maximum 500) comes through Bissell's India command...
Although depressed by the bare facts of shortages, Miss Rand smiled when someone reminded her of the day two years ago when she visited Harvard College and was escorted to a dance by a group of students...