Word: bareness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born & bred a mountain man. By the time he was knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3 in his bare feet. He had a vast nose, a scraggly beard and a wild look in his eyes...
Gandhi, dressed in a newly starched khadi loin cloth, with a white cotton shawl over his bare shoulders, drove in a new, green Studebaker to Jinnah's stucco house. Acting the part of Qaed-e-Azam (Head of the Nation), Jinnah sent his secretary to greet Gandhi at his car, waited inside the house for his first private meeting with the Hindu leader in three years...
...concert soothed the savage breast of Jerusalem last week. Only a small percentage of the hundreds who besieged the big, bare movie house, Edison Hall, in the Holy City could get in. When the concert started, 15 minutes late, hundreds stood in the aisles and the passageways...
...ancient Incas fully appreciated chinchillas; they wore the skins and ate the flesh. Sometimes the Incas sheared them like tiny sheep, wove thistledown cloth of their "wool." In the late 19th Century, a rage for chinchilla swept the world of fashion-and furriers soon swept the Andes bare of the little animals...
...departmental staff repeatedly stresses the idea that it is not set up merely to cater to the needs of embryodoctors, yet the concentration program is too varied to provide more than a bare subsistence-level development of biochemical studies...