Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman put off the disagreeable job of ousting Landis until almost the last minute. When he got around to it, 72 hours before the deadline, he did it with unusual bluntness. White House Secretary Charles G. Ross gave a bare announcement that the President did not intend to reappoint Chairman Landis...
Charles A. Lindbergh turned up in Hong Kong on "Pan American Airlines business," gave it a touch of mystery by asking newsmen not to report anything except the bare fact of his arrival...
Force Ouvrière, the anti-Communist movement within the Communist-bossed C.G.T. (TIME, Dec. 22), last week called an "extraordinary national conference" in Paris. Some 250 delegates crowded into a bare, smallish meeting hall on the Left Bank. Pouchy old Léon Jouhaux, Socialist co-secretary-general of the C.G.T., sat near a radiator to keep warm. He wore a grey sweater under his blue suit, and a grey hat pulled over his eyes. Old Léon has a bad heart and he looked tired...
Novelist Knut Hamsun, 88, who won fame in the '20s with his hard-breathing accounts of man's bare-knuckled fight with Mother Nature (Growth of The Soil), was sued in Norway for the damage he had done his native land as a wartime collaborator. "The Germans expected a lot from me," protested the 1920 Nobel Prizewinner, "but they were not altogether pleased." Altogether pleasing or not, Collaborator Hamsun owed the nation $86,000, the court decided...
Aspen, Alta, and Sun Valley dominate western slope sliding with their fast, dry snow, bare mountain-sides, and long runs, Sun Valley even goes so far as to offer outdoor swimming all year around, and both Aspen and Alta are also blessed with mild weather...