Word: barest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other appealing candidates stand only the barest chance in the voting. One is Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, 56, a black priest from Benin (formerly Dahomey), who was consecrated bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...
...understand, and hearing those words from a seven-year-old child, who has few inhibitions or fears to express himself and what he has been taught, as opposed to the adult who has been taught that he should feel guilty about his privileged position, puts the facts in their barest truth...
Once all the hoopla of official dedication and the Dating Game-like rundown of both teams was over, the meet itself was finally stripped down to its barest essentials: strategy and pure competition...
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I realize that many of you are simply "shopping around," and may later decide that this column is not the "thing" for you, so I'll keep my remarks to the barest possible minimum...
...speech topics in 1977 are hard to come by, the Harvard Experience, whether presented in its barest forms or in the context of a larger world view has amused and sobered Class Day crowds for many Junes. Emil Guillermo, Ivy orator for 1977 has entitled his speech, "On Harvard where the B sucks and I got Cs." Guillermo says he feels changed by Harvard by having been "a Harvard Square pedestrian." He says in his speech: "To be totally dead is to be stripped of all your recommendations and test scores and have them attributed to someone else...