Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flushing Meadow was a suburban pastoral of cold wintry sunlight and bare lonely trees swaying in a fitful wind. The building which housed the world's town meeting lay strangely isolated in the brownish-green emptiness of dead lawns. Inside, the modernistic public lobby was filled with people who had come for a quick look at history before the Second General Assembly of the United Nations adjourned. A group of children clustered around a counter as excitedly as though it displayed candy and comics rather than U.N. literature. A tall, blond boy jumped up & down. "Sammy," he cried, "Sammy...
Where & When. Libel depends on the where & when of the words used. What was libelous years ago may not be libelous today, and vice versa. "In the days of the bustle and crinoline [a description or] picture of a woman . . . showing her legs naked to the thighs, shoulders bare above the breast, with a scanty midriff covering, would have been libelous," says Wittenberg. "Today, women of the best families .'. . are depicted daily and on Sundays . . . [thus] scantily clad...
Three thousand demonstrators were massed beyond the lower barricade, at the Place des Ternes. It was here that fighting began-not too violently at first; 30 men climbed over the trestles, hitting out at the police with bare fists. The police drew their white batons and lashed out. Three men were knocked to the ground, the others retreated...
...Fashion Futures" were unveiled. What they saw, in Earl Carroll's gaudy Hollywood restaurant, was enough to make some of them wonder who was being kidded. The 98 displays, each by a different designer, ranged in effect from the muffled look of the '90s to the bare look of tiger-skin days...
...fine introduction W. H. Auden says, "The last few pages in My Heart Laid Bare, which follow this entry, are some of the most terrifying and pathetic passages in literature. They present a man fighting against time to eradicate a life time's habits of thought and feeling, and set himself in order and acquire a history. . . . To the eye of nature, he was too late. As he spoke, the bird stooped and struck. But, to the eye of the spirit, we are entitled to believe he was in time - for, though the spirit needs time, an instant...