Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seasoned Tactics. In Detroit, Ruth Flanagan charged her landlady with felonious assault, claimed that she had burst into the bathroom, sprayed her with red pepper, chased her into the street buff-bare...
...will live in barracks at Fort Devens, 32 miles away, in defense-worker shacks set up on tennis courts and in Boston's Brunswick Hotel, which the university has bought and allocated to married veterans. For many of them, "going to Harvard" this year will mean only the bare essential of "going to classes...
...plants for the first time in its 50 years. At its National Stock Yards plant near St. Louis, Armour & Co. laid off half of its 2,000 employes; other packers laid off thousands more. The plot was familiar. Everyone could guess the ending. Soon U.S. tables would again be bare of meat...
...general: "The field of American life is as bare of the Church as a billiard-table of a centerpiece; a truth that the myriad little structures 'attended' on Sundays and on the 'off' evenings of their 'sociables' proclaim as with the audible sound of the roaring of a million mice...
...Mikimoto this was a significant milestone in his postwar rehabilitation. At 89 he still makes every major decision of his company, directs every minor operation. He still likes to amuse employes by lying on his back, twirling an open umbrella with his bare feet, says: "It helps keep my workers contented." He also likes to invite visitors to dinner, serve oysters on the half shell complete with pearls...