Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Havana. Crowds were forbidden. Anyone who "gossiped against the Government" was liable to 15 days in jail, & a $50 fine, as was anyone who appeared in the streets bareheaded and wearing a beard. Police had discovered that a bristling beard and a bare head were being adopted by young Cubans as badge of revolutionary sympathy...
...lantern-jawed Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, plump German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, and millions of swarming grasshoppers descended upon Rome last week. In the Campagna frightened peasants set fire to their fields as black clouds of the insects dropped from the sky, ate wheatfields to the dust and vineyards bare to the stalks, then hopped and whirred away. Gardens were ruined in the city. Streets, roofs and windows were gummy with grasshopper bodies and their brown "tobacco juice...
From a crinkle in the Laurentian Mountains of eastern Quebec, which Princeton's Henry Van Dyke once described as "Nature with her teeth bare and her lips scarred," 30 naturalists last week returned by steamer to their homes in Canada and the U. S. They had spent a fortnight at a Canadian Biological Conference discussing and attempting to phrase the natural laws which govern the alternating plenitude and scarcity of wild life in Canada...
...cross fertilization. . . . Eliminate . . . 'Here are two single celled animals in conjugation. Notice that the protoplasm, the living substance, is flowing from one to another.' . . . Eliminate all views of embryo . . . actual copulation of female mantis . . . views of spiders actually mating . . . views of child at mother's breast and view of bare breast . . . view of children where sex is exposed. . . . Reason: INDECENT...
...picture of an infant's bare backside, with the text: KEEP KISSABLE...