Word: barest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred arranged to rent the site from the rancher who owned it (with a verbal agreement to give him 15% of any commercial ore mined), and began to dig for buried treasure. He had only the barest knowledge of mining practices, and for three years he worked alone, hacking away with a pick and a crude handdrill. Many Saturdays Martha Schwartzwalder swept the school floors and washed blackboards so her husband could work on his mine. It was a grinding, grueling job. On the last four unblazed miles to the minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice...
...Hollywood, a studio movie set was swept for action as red-haired Maureen O'Hara, wigged to her knees, prepared to re-enact history's barest bareback ride in the title role of Lady Godiva of Coventry. After the set was cleared, all that remained were 14 film technicians (eleven of them women), no outsiders, not a single producer...
Trial Run. In Vienna, Gustav Haubert, 40, asked the judge to let him spend his three-month sentence on an especially hard cot, added: "Also reduce my meals to the barest minimum. I have decided to go into a monastery after I leave jail, and I want to get in training...
...farms. So the farms must be made to produce more food with fewer farmers. To do that, tools, machines and fertilizers are required, but the men to make them cannot really be spared from the farms until tools and fertilizers are made available. Everything that is produced beyond the barest subsistence level must, for years, be sold abroad to raise capital for more factories, more machines, more canals and railroads...
Phil Silvers' one-man show is little more than a jumble of old burlesque routines connected by the barest of plots and a few undistinguished melodies. On film, even these overdone antics seem scarcely like parodies and painfully like the real thing. As an opener, four or five comedians plant themselves in front of one set and shout two-line jokes at each other for forty minutes. Top Banana rapidly sheds its appeal in the next two acts with variations on the same theme...