Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...active membership and particularly in the number of stellar performers they seem able to attract. They also seem to have a consistent monopoly on ambition, with their tackling of the scenic and casting problems of "Joan" and "Henry" as opposed to the Dramatic Club's sketchy "Lefty" and proposed bare-stage production of "Enemy of the People." On the other side of the line the HDC wields its name and a store of home-owned lighting equipment...
Whether or not the plan was feasible or sufficient, U.S. action of some sort was obviously necessary; Europe's condition was desperate. Britain's liberal Manchester Guardian, for one, recognized the urgent fact: "There is at best a bare chance of saving Europe. ... It is the American public with whom the next move lies. . . . Reassurance could work wonders in the despondent state of the European mind. . . . Never before has one nation carried a greater responsibility for the fate of others in time of peace...
Although the maintenance men come by appointment, they are used to seeing bare sunbathers jump up, let.out a squeal, and do a header into a towel. At the home of one Hollywood star (first magnitude), the maintenance man often finds her with a male guest, necking at the poolside. Says the imperturbable workman: "We just work around...
Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died...
...glass of sweetened lime juice, thus ending a 73-hour fast (his first since 1943) in protest against communal violence. Half an hour later a dozen Hindu and Moslem youths came to beg Gandhi's forgiveness for rioting, solemnly promised not to do it again. At his bare brown feet the penitents placed big bundles containing knives, rifles, a much-used Sten gun and a dozen U.S.-made hand grenades...