Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with thirst, hunger and desperation, with his clothes washed away to shreds and his skin a mess of huge sun blisters scaled with burning salt, he would lose control and scream at his companions. He confesses with shame that he was afraid to catch a passing shark with his bare hands. But he kept his strength of mind...
Later Pietro overcame his fear of death. Loss of that fear gave him an appetite for living which made any wealth beyond that of bare life ridiculous. It also gave him a complete distrust of theory and oratory. "Must I force myself to shout and sing," he asked, "if I have only voice enough for ordinary conversation? A seed of wheat beneath the snow is a poor thing; we might tax it with not having the value of a bomb or a pearl...
...Washington, "thin sharp remnants of the afternoon's cold wind dither across bleak LaFayette Square directly in front of the White House; tree limbs stick up bare and stark above the scant light of the posted lamps. . . . There is a silent deliberation in the movement of the cars. . . . Hundreds of pedestrians in a steady flow ease past the tall, iron picket fence separating the White House grounds from the avenue. . . . They move along quietly, talking if at all in whispers, subdued whispers. Silence on the avenue, despite the mob of cars, the mass of people, is apparent, deep enough...
...under strict orders from gentlemanly Owner Field never to refer to his own or Colonel McCormick's war record, refrained from replying in kind. But Chicagoans, appalled at Colonel McCormick's loud bad manners, were eager last week to recite the bare facts...
Standing a bare three feet away from the red, the Harvard Film Society goes into New Lecture Hall at eight o'clock again tonight on its accelerated program. The pictures are Dostoyevaski's "Crime and Punishment" and "Tanks." the famous OEM documentary of the production war. The Society is showing Pierre Blauchard's French version of a Russian novel not for its snob appeal, the Executive Committee states, but "because students want to see good pictures, as they have during the Society's six-year existence...