Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was an abundance of talent as well as food and drink, and the program, carried along smoothly by the able efforts of master of ceremonies Skelton, was brought to a rousing strip-tease climax. Lieutenant Pradley's spirited rendition of the bare-it-all ballet was undoubtedly the hit of the evening...
...Lack of transportation inside China makes it hard to move supplies from provinces relatively well supplied to those bare of even the plainest necessities. Lack of capital to nourish the small but intense efforts to mechanize handicrafts limits China's capacity to satisfy even a fraction of the mounting demand. Capital had discovered smuggling from Occupied China; the returns were fat and fast. As merchants saw that the authorities were not opposed, they plunged avidly into the get-rich-quick border trade...
...valiant taxi-driver (Gene Kelly) who rushes at the priest's killers with his bare fists, takes everything his torturers can give him in solitary confinement-and utterly loses his courage. The Spaniard (Joseph Calleia), the only prisoner who is politically as sophisticated as the Nazis, is cold-blooded in his preference that the broken taxi-driver should die rather than return to infect his comrades with despair. The young bourgeois lawyer (Jean Pierre Aumont) is horrified when his fellows plot to kill the wine-merchant without a trial, yet he succeeds him as a trusty. He manages...
...came into the WAC's kitchen. Helpfully he poured some gasoline into the stove to prime it, splashed some on his clothes, set himself afire and collapsed in a mass of flames. Peewee threw herself on him, smothered the fire with her body, beat it out with her bare hands. Private Jacobs was carried off to the hospital, lucky to be alive; Peewee was carried off with him, for treatment of burns on her face and legs...
Sample of the Tangle. Looking forward from a Fifth Army regimental O.P. (observation post), the men could see their problem ahead-mountain ridges converging to a bottleneck, and in the bottleneck two obstructions, a bare rocky spine and a round wooded knoll. These hills squeezed Highway No. 6 into a horseshoe before it could straighten out on its way to Cassino and Rome, 90 miles away. Infantrymen named the hills "Old Baldy" and "The Fat One," and got ready to take them...