Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with mechanics under the chassis or the hood, and frigid passengers thawing themselves by the roadside with a fire of rice stubble. Some vehicles were parked for the evening with passengers and crew sleeping underneath for shelter against the wind. Others had broken down completely. They had been stripped bare of every useful article-tires, lamps, seats, even motors. Abandoned beside them lay cargoes of bombs and ammunition, shining and useless in the biting cold...
Blake bagged his other bonus by another hairbreadth: the Canadiens squeezed through the holiday with a bare one-point, league-leading edge over the Detroit Red Wings. The Detroiters had been all but unbeatable in recent weeks, and looked like likely first-placers when they met the Canadiens in a midseason "crucial game" last week. Blake, Richard and Lach promptly busted that bubble; their eight goals and eight assists, with Right-Winger Richard going on a five-goal spree, added up to a crushing 9-to-1 victory...
Prime Minister Churchill was grim as he exhumed the "grim, bare bones" of the Polish question. He reported: "On Feb. 22 I said that at Teheran I took occasion to raise personally with Marshal Stalin the question of the future of Poland. It was with great pleasure that I heard from Marshal Stalin that he, too, was resolved upon the creation and maintenance of a strong, integral, independent Poland as one of the leading powers in Europe. He several times repeated this declaration in public. I am convinced that that represents the settled policy of the Soviet Union...
...heavy-duty tires. This was made plain last week as 1) the Army, which unexpectedly hiked its tire needs from 16.4 million to 26.8 million a year, found that it will get far fewer; 2) the quota for civilian truckers was cut almost 50% under ODT's "bare minimum" for the first quarter...
...peaches on boards under trees," and in the villages were strapping Indian squaws from the tribes famed for the beauty of their women. Irving thought the Indians were like strange, wild, magnificent prairie birds. They rode by in scarlet turbans with plumes of black feathers, their legs and thighs bare...