Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bare floodlit stage of Nanking's National Assembly hall strode the Gimo, erect and austere in five-starred military khaki. He took his stand under a backdrop portrait of Sun Yat-sen while 2,500 Assembly delegates applauded.Then Chiang Kai-shek reported on the state of the nation...
...diplomatic initiative for the U.S. The initiative lasted just long enough to prove that Communism could not be stopped by dollars alone. At the London conference of foreign ministers last November, George Marshall wrote the end to that chapter himself. He stripped Russia's policy down to its bare essentials: the wreckage of Europe in preparation for Russian seizure...
...reason for the quiet was the shift of election emphasis from the heavily Communist cities (where minds seem already made up) to the countryside. Out in the hill villages, living in bleak cottages and scratching a bare living from the thin soil of the peninsula, the poverty-stricken paesano was the man of the hour. His vote might tip the scales...
...intellectual Vacuum" that was Europe at the war's end, has arisen gradually an ineatiable demand for knowledge and more knowledge to fill that vacuum. Students have helped rebuild universities with their bare hands. Many have been turned away from colleges for lack of space. Often there is only enough paper for one students to take notes for an entire class. Few books are available and, whenever a magazine is able to increase its publication, all issues are soon hungrily devoured...
Trotting horse races take place Sunday afternoons at Derby and Lanconia, New Hampshire. Keeping the pacers upright on the bare ice demands strong hands and steady nerves from the drivers. At the finish line a blanket, a ribbon, or even a shiny new bag of oats awaits the winning horse...