Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tick of the clock, hundreds of people are dying. Everywhere, as we talk, men are maiming, mutilating, burning each other and blasting each other into all eternity. Women are being buried with their babies in their arms under the ruins of their bombed homes. Whole peoples grow sunken-eyed, bare-boned, rickety-easy preys to pestilence, after famine. And with every breath we take in, some starved child breathes out its last...
...Some of them wear wrong clothes: forbidden peekaboo sweaters (bare at the waist) or transparent blouses. Many of them won't wear safe work suits, designed to prevent accidents. Most of them now wear slacks, but rebel at keeping their hair covered. Occasionally one gets scalped...
...Army got around to making public last week something that its Aviation Cadets had known for months: its maximum dimensions for fighter pilots are 5 ft. 9 in. in bare feet, 170 Ib. on the scale. The Air Forces prefer candidates for fighter training who are a little smaller to start with. Fighter cockpits are built for nothing bigger...
Next the surgeon tunnels into the exposed muscle with a special steel dilator, twisting and turning until he has formed a canal in the muscle through which he draws the tube of skin. The bare muscle, which now encases the tube, is covered over with a patch of skin from some other part of the patient's body...
...short-sighted policies of the last twenty-five years are blamed upon the general public, who have forced their government to continue "sparring with the situation until the American people are ready to face the facts--the bare distasteful facts." This tendency to evade the issue and to seek the easy way out is, for Reston, the greatest threat to a United Nation victory, and he devotes the book to dispelling this threat. Facts contained in chapters like "The Illusion that Time and Money Will Save Us" are ably used to dissipate mental mists, and the reader, given easily digestible...