Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the orchestra at Lahore's Falett's Hotel played quietly for dancing, European guests drank cocktails on the moonlit terrace. Beyond earshot of the music, whole blocks of buildings lay gutted. Streets were bare and silent. Over the deserted railroad station the smell of corpses hung...
...Lofoten Islands are bare and gaunt; like a saw of teeth in a giant shark's mouth, their peaks rise out of the sea off Norway's coast...
...Bare Protest. The fanatical Sons of Freedom broke away in the early 1900s from Canada's Doukhobor colony, claiming that they alone were faithful to the old Doukhobor teachings.* They became best known for their peculiar means of public protest: stripping to the buff in fair weather and foul. Religious pacifists, they refused during the war to serve even in conscientious objectors' camps. They recently concluded that a third world war was imminent, that to avoid it they must somehow placate divine anger. They also brooded enviously about the prosperity of orthodox Doukhobors. Soon, armed with gasoline tins...
...gone, Joe went back to the kitchen and autographed the aprons of the waitresses and dishwashers, then drove off for his summer home in Sagamore on Cape Cod. Other guests drove back into Fall River. Opposite the City Hall, the sign outside Granite Block Spa now said with bare coherence: "Joe Martin...
...John Yetter surprised a fox in her chicken coop, doughtily grabbed it by the tail, gave it a whirl, bashed its head against the ground. In Willington, Conn., Mary Cski, 75, heard a commotion among her hens, hustled down, caught a marauding 8-lb. chicken hawk with her bare hands...