Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colds Bare Harvard...
Like a covey of pigeons fluttering into an alley, a squadron of U.S. light bombers swooped down through the North African mountains. The field on which it lighted was bare of anything that would identify it as an airdrome. But trucks began to arrive with equipment. Men swarmed over the plateau. Within 24 hours of their landing, the bombers were off on their first mission...
...simple, tender Russian tale of a Red Army tank man and a nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
...position leisurely, then bombed. The ridge ahead seemed to be a mass of flame and smoke and the ground where I was lying half a mile away jumped with each explosion. There were seven Junkers 88s with two Messerschmitts as escort. When they had gone the ridge seemed bare, but soon you could see men crawling on it and hear the snap of Bren guns replying to the German fire. . . . There was another bombing attack and two more strafes before dark...
Love (blonde, queenly Alexis Smith) and the facts of Corbett's life are allowed to interfere only slightly in Pugilist Flynn's career, but fans will not complain. They can see oldtime titans destroy each other with bare knuckles in gaslit, neolithic exhibitions of carnage-under-contract. Gentleman Jim's footwork is a joy to behold (and is beheld from all camera angles). The pictured versions of his classic bouts with Joe Choynski, Jake Kilrain, et al. seem, to modern eyes, even to improve on the originals...