Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slim little lady from Omsk reached up and pulled a string. Her tug released a flag (hammer-&-sickle rampant on field gules) which covered part of a tank. Written boldly on the tank's bare flank was the word STALIN...
Crimea is no Crete. It is three times as big as Crete. It is a peninsula, not an island. It is a center of trade, the linchpin of a whole sea, not just an olive grower's paradise. It boasts a great naval base, not just a great, bare bay. It has several bristling military airports, not just four improvised plane-patches. Its fortifications have been planned for years, not mere days...
...illustration of Author Huxley's (and many other people's) pessimism about politics and history: "To all but the saints, who anyhow have no need of them, the lessons of history are totally unavailing." Huxley also finds Father Joseph very timely. "The road trodden by those bare horny feet led [through the Thirty Years War] to August 1914 and September...
Poland festered with misery. Wrote the Reich's governor at Posen to two minor officials: "For us there are no good or bad Poles. We are against all that is Polish. . . ." Bare statistics from Warsaw's ghetto bore eloquent testimony to Poland's suffering. Normally twice as many persons are born in the ghetto as die there each year. In June of this year only 396 were born. Four thousand, two hundred and ninety died...
...bedridden, half-paralyzed artist named Edward Bruce lay in a bare, white-walled room in Washington's Emergency Hospital. There he got to thinking how much better his room would look if its walls were hung with a few water colors. He was in no condition to paint any himself. So he hung some paintings by contemporary artists and loved them. That gave Artist Bruce the idea of putting original water colors on the walls of U.S. hospitals. By last week it had produced an upsurge in the watercolor business...