Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody's in the Act. The roster of ICCASP's Manhattan and Hollywood chapters might have sprung directly from a mad director's loveliest dream. Frank Sinatra is one of its hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...
...glumly on a bare wooden platform while "Pete" Green and kinky-haired Senator C. Wayland Brooks paid him fancy tribute. He mopped streams of perspiration from his brow, went under the grandstand for a cold bottle of pop. Then he spoke...
...Great Adventure. These are the bare external facts of the career of Molotov the Communist. Neglected by many of those who watch him at Paris is the drama-the Great Adventure of the Russian Revolution-which really molded his political character and now determines his every action on the international stage. Molotov threw in his lot with a little group who believed that by brains and ruthlessness and unity they could overthrow a society that other European revolutionaries watched with patient hope for the worst, but no determined plan of attack...
General Eisenhower stated several months ago that "Hungry men make wars." The present critical situation in Europe cannot begin to be resolved until the people concerned can at least obtain the bare necessities of life. The resources of the Harvard Food Committee are not large, so they have decided to concentrate on alleviating the conditions of a small but promising group: the university students. The price of one night's entertainment is a small sacrifice...
...spurious theory, still popular unfortunately, tries to explain that hideous penchant of ours for collecting things as nothing but a legitimate inheritance from some of our more squirrel-like ancestors. The bare truth of the matter is that collecting is a form of escapism. It affords the harried citizens of the modern rational world an opportunity to give way occasionally to outbursts of insanity without incurring any considerable danger of losing face...