Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stables are bare where once stood the proud steeds of an imperial prince. The glistening, silky backs that one time bore the heir to the British throne through many of the most brilliant hunts that the world has seen, are doomed to sigh under the weight of common people, unnoticed, ignored. The days of glory are passed and stark realism shatters the roseate glow of the skies of romance...
Another possible close-in airport is Governor's Island, the army post in New York Bay. Last week the Senate and House conferees on the War Department appropriation bill agreed to prevent construction of army barracks on a bare area of the island...
Stripped of all ornament, bare and ruthless, the stark tragedy of the crash and of the separation of the party of survivors after nerves and bodies had broken under the long vigile on the ice make a story that should hold romanticist and realist alike. The castaways themselves tell of the great white silence and its terror...
...Washington, D. C., Guatemalan Minister Adrian Recinos predicted, "The revolt will be put down within 48 hours," but it wasn't. Officials of the U S. State Department envisioned the bare possibility of intervention "to protect American lives (700) and property ($60,515,000) in Guatemala...
...admitted, donned the rude brown habit with hempen girdle, the sandals on his bare feet. That was two years ago. Word of his entering the monastery spread through the land...