Word: barer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tenebrous tones Churchill surveyed the Spartan boundaries of Labor's promised land. "All enterprise, all initiative is baffled and fettered. The queues are longer, the faces are longer, the shelves are barer, the shops are emptier. . . . Whole spheres of beneficial activity are frozen rigid and numb because this Government had to prove their Socialist orthodoxy...
...Chicago 35 discharged G.I.s picked over the slim stocks in a men's wear shop last week, found no suits or overcoats to fit. In stores all across the land it was the same: clothes racks were barer than at any time since war began...
...when Abbott let his pint-sized brother-in-law, a Florida lawyer, take over (1926), the Defender started down the skids. Livelier competitors (the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier) grabbed a lot of Defender circulation with pictures of barer brownskin and high yaller gals, more chest-thumping against race discrimination. The Defender staff had to be harshly shaken up. The brother-in-law, bounced at last, sued the now-ailing Abbott for $85,000. Mrs. Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from...