Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What would U.S. women do without silk stockings? Some predicted that they might copy their English sisters, paint their bare legs stocking-color (see cut). A hopeful note in the panicky bedlam was a report of a new stocking made of cotton mesh which "wears like iron" and "looks very sheer...
...Timberrrr!" would soon ring out no more in the stillness of the forest-it would be drowned by the din of a mechanical buzz saw. The old hell-roaring, ripsnorting days of Jigger Jones (the Maine woodsman who could kick the knots off a spruce log with his bare feet), of loggers who slept with their axes and gouged out each other's eyes, would soon be gone forever. The Gargantuan legend of Paul Bunyan was more legendary than ever...
Legs akimbo, half lying on their parachute packs, nine Marines lounged on the bare metal floor. The tenth stood before an open hatch in the side of the plane. A little older than the others, he was the sergeant and jump-master; he would be the first through the hatch. Now, while the plane rushed toward the spot chosen for this practice jump near Fredericksburg, his hands were raised above his head, gripping a cable which ran the length of the cabin...
Since the average yearly mortality in U.S. zoos is about 20% for mammals, 18% for birds, three or four more years of war will mean many empty cages, bare pens. Says William Bridges of New York City's Bronx Zoo (world's biggest): "Zoos aren't folding up for lack of animals, but we can all see the handwriting on the wall pretty plainly." So last month Director Allyn Jennings of the Bronx Zoo held a think-meeting of eight of the biggest U.S. zoo-men. How could they fill their cages...
...stoop-shouldered man in faded and patched overalls and jumper," whose "whole attitude [was] one of vague indecision and innate bewilderment." Maw "was heavy and cumbersome with un attended childbearing and her feet were flat and encased in low tennis shoes . . . with the laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack for drawing) and Reno (pro nounced Rinno...