Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shucked. Near Elvira, Iowa, Farmer Donald Rawson tumbled into a corn-picking machine, got out alive but husked buff-bare...
From the Executive Mansion, Harry Truman could watch the bare trees on the White House lawn bending under the assault. But Mr. Truman himself was not bending. He was determined to fight his battle out at whatever cost. He had ordered John Steelman, his "labor adviser" and Lewis' solicitous friend, to stand in the corner. The President conferred principally with young Clark Clifford, his special counsel, who seconded Mr. Truman's assertion that now was the time to stand firm. That was the word Clifford passed along to Interior Secretary Julius Krug and Attorney General Tom Clark...
...better. The Student Council, probing the matter, is finding out what too many people have known for too long: there is no office space, no convenient meeting place, in short, no facilities at all to be had within the University. As a result, the smaller organizations presently scrape out bare existences, scurrying from Junior Common Room to Junior Common Room, and carrying on their office work in somebody-or-other's overcrowded...
Bernard Shaw having walked off with Saint Joan for the theater of his time, and perhaps of all time, Playwright Anderson prudently goes at her sidelong, writing a play within a play. He portrays actors rehearsing, on a bare stage, a play about Joan; and he laces their drama with hers by having the director (nicely played by Sam Wanamaker) and the leading lady squabble over the script's delineation of the Maid...
...wings a piano played softly Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. A squatty ballerina in pink & white tarlatan waddled across the broad, bare stage with the grace of an angry duck, poised herself on her toes in the manner of Alicia Markova and executed a series of shaky pirouettes. To no music at. all she leaped through the air and beat her chest in an athletic agony that was unmistakably Martha Graham...