Word: bareness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among Bao Dai's other loyal followers are the Mois, a million G-stringed men and bare-breasted women who still lead a nomad life in the uplands. Last June, Buddhist Bao Dai personally took the oath of allegiance of a Moi tribal chief. The Mois still live under their ancient tribal laws, including the one that covers adultery. The first time an adulterous wife is caught, her lover is punished for seducing her. The second time, she is punished for permitting herself to be seduced again. The third time, the husband is punished-for not knowing...
...great gush, like a city that has survived a plague, the campus came to life. Bare walls suddenly had pictures; windows had bright new curtains. In the roadways, cars were emptied of bridge lamps, wastebaskets and even a pair of antlers. In one house a janitor wrestled with a trunk ("I should be twins today"). The Head of House tried to make everyone feel at home. "The girls get prettier every year," she burbled. "At least we think so for the first few days...
Shepard is a little man with a big job. Starting last Monday, five-foot, seven Inch Shepard climbed upstairs from the bare type of office the H.A.A. is prone to give its coaches in the Indoor Athletic Building, and began sorting out fifty competent larger varsity candidates. So far," he says, rustling a typewritten varsity roster, "I don't even know their names. I'll just have to drill them every day until I know what they...
Gone are the days when Crimson fans had to sit on bare Soldiers Field benches when watching varsity football games--gone, that is for those who don't mind the payment of a nominal...
...usual, she appeared from behind the pale green curtains dressed in a simple short black frock ("It is my uniform -I am soldier"), her dark brown hair frumpily frizzled, her gaminish face almost bare of makeup. (Says Piaf: "I don't like my appearance to distract . . .") Then, announcing her own numbers in newly learned English, like a ten-year-old reciting Longfellow, she packed them all off to Paree...