Word: barest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even the railroads could get their barest needs: the Office of Defense Transportation request for 1.5 million tons of steel for badly needed new cars and rail was cut by one-third...
Food and Shelter. Life is primitive on Saipan. The shipping shortage and the necessity of supplying battles farther west permit only the barest necessities (even for Saipan's American conquerors, who still eat out of cans). For the captive civilians the only cover is what can be built out of weathered planks, battered sheet tin from the bomb-shattered sugar refinery, and tattered tenting...
...more Russians came, Russians who had been fighting Germans and Rumanians from Bessarabia to Stalingrad and back again. They came to a country rich in everything they had done without for more than three years. They came with only the barest minimum of supplies. They started requisitioning. Some started looting. Some got drunk and started taking women. For a while the Red Army went on something like a spree...
...then went home to head up the Kremlin's North American department. With him to Canada he brought his wife, their 14-year-old son Victor, six trunks, twelve suitcases and the 65-volume Soviet Encyclopedia (Moscow's official compendium of information about the U.S.S.R.). After the barest formalities he settled down to run Ottawa's Soviet Embassy. Under a Minister, its staff had already become Ottawa's second-largest (only the U.S. Embassy staff is bigger...
Germany. The Italian collapse caught Hitler's evil wizard Paul Joseph Goebbels unprepared. All last week he gave the German people only the barest factual details while he floundered from one explanation to another. Pessimism was rampant. Wrote the German-controlled Brüsseler Zeitung: "At present we rest our hopes exclusively on our own military strength, for there is nothing else to hope...