Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world without a doubt. They remember their own youth and are kind, tolerant and understanding, but firm in the dispensing of parental authority. However, when I'm really in the wrong and deserve to be punished, I get it: said "it" being 48 sound whacks across my bare bottom with Dad's hand...
...Says Author Barzun: they "made final the separation between man and his soul." "Man was no longer a cherished creature of the gods. . . . Things were the only reality-indestructible matter in motion." Result of this apotheosis of matter: "A premium was put on fact, brute force, valueless existence and bare survival...
Amadeo of Aosta stooped, laid the bare palm of his hand flat on the soil of the Empire which was no longer his to rule, stood again, and walked quickly down to the British staff car waiting...
Said he, looking comfortably around the bare walls of his new office in Washington: "I'm not taking this job too seriously...
...hurt the steel industry enough, another strike in soft coal was halted just as it was about to pop. The Mediation Board's Davis & Teagle jumped in, got disputants back into conference, but if no solution is reached this week, the Mediation Board will in all likelihood lay bare its own facts and figures on the controversial coal business, for the public to read and judge...