Word: barest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, bore no relation to the fight over air groups. The U.M.T. decision lay between a modest-size standing army of 932,000 men supplemented by a U.M.T.-fed National Guard-or a much bigger Army than anyone wanted to contemplate. He estimated that without U.M.T., for "the barest type of security," the Army would have to be raised to at least...
...Crimson went down to the Bowl with the barest glimmerings of a chance for an upset; an upset that would have saved the season, that would have almost obscured the Virginia and Rutgers and Princeton debacles...
Little was known about his personal past. Russia's Cerberean censors withheld the barest biographical data. Recently, when a newsman who wanted to write a Gromyko profile asked his help, Gromyko snapped: "My personality does not interest me." One somewhat challenging fact is known: there are actually many Gromykos in the world...
...Most pickets were as polite as they could be as 534 of their fellow teachers walked through the lines. At first, in the biggest teachers' strike in U.S. history, most of Buffalo's 72,000 public-school pupils had no classes, and the rest had only the barest instruction. Then the Mayor decided to close all the schools (before the joyful students wrecked them) and the nonstriking teachers stayed at home...
Whenever one of the athletically minded public relations men can get you alone, provided you show even the barest courtesy, he'll yammer at you for as long as you'll let him on what a great team he has coming up this fall. As early in the year as July, he's ready to tell you about the men who are going to run ring around all comers in October and November...