Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading also gave him a profound awareness of his people's plight. "I used to mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that Negroes led so passional...
...shortages have mounted, more & more Detroit shoppers have been crossing over to Windsor to buy goods that are plentiful and unrationed in Canada. Last week they threatened to sweep the shops bare...
After a year and a half of liberation, Sicilians were half-starved, wretched, rebellious. The Allies' swift but grueling Sicily campaign had razed many of its towns and villages, reduced its food supplies to a bare existence point. What grain they had been able to grow, the profit-minded Sicilians had sold to the Roman market at handsome prices. Hunger and discomfort (shoes cost from $70 to $100 a pair) had fed the fires of rebellion and separatism. Separatist leaders, like the politician Andrea Finocchiaro-Aprile, had kept them stoked. When they died down a little, the Italian Government...
...Bare Fact. In Los Angeles, assorted employes at the Follies Theater, charged with contributing to juvenile delinquency by acting in an allegedly nude show, asked dismissal of charges on the ground that a woman is not naked so long as she has her shoes...
...place resolved itself into a bare and dirty room, with a couple of windows, whereof a tenth part might be of glass, the remainder being stopped up with old copybooks and paper. . . . The walls were so stained and discoloured that it was impossible to tell whether they had ever been touched with paint or whitewash...