Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decks. The crew quickly got all passengers into the lifeboats, dropped the boats halfway over the side. There the passengers huddled for three hours, until rescue ships came alongside. Sunrise revealed that the Magdalena had been sailing a good five miles out of the steamer lane, a bare two miles off the rock-strewn shore...
...house on F Street S.W., an old Negro lay on a bare bedspring in the junk-crammed yard, taking the sun. One of his legs was off at the knee. Inside, his son and daughter-in-law lived with their nine children in two rooms. The eldest girl had just borne an illegitimate baby. Tattered cotton coverlets lay in disorder on the only three beds. Chunks of plaster had fallen from the walls, exposing the laths. There was no heat; water came from a faucet in the yard. The young Negro wife giggled in embarrassment, twiddled the wick...
...after the great Communist offensive began. From positions around doomed Nanking, Nationalist artillery still fired an occasional shot toward Communist positions on the Yangtze's north bank. Retreating Nationalist soldiers poured back across the river in tugboats and barges. In the yellow glare of the capital's bare electric street lights, they shuffled toward the railway station. The trains they hoped to take to the south never came. A soldier guarding a ferry building watched the routed men and said: "They have been coming back all night. I don't know what's going...
...flower beds of Mayor Peng Chieh's spacious gardens were littered with bits of wood, plaster and broken glass. A man wrestled with a steam radiator, trying to get it on his shoulder. A coolie, stripped bare to the waist, grinned: 'I didn't like the mayor, anyway...
There was no lack of organization, fight, or ability in the Governor Dummer team. The Crimson just won, and then by a bare hair. If credits should go to any one player it would go to big attack player Ned Yost and his huge stick. Yost plays crease, and he ran up his four point score with his defenseman's stick, which is longer than normal for an attack player. Yost catches the ball high in the air and uses his extra leverage to slam the ball into the net with a speed most opposing defensemen decry...