Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proof that the British were yet able to sustain the night-by-night, city-by-city offensive which they had promised. But the fact that the R.A.F. could do it at all was proof enough that still more can be done, more often than British airmen believed possible a bare six months ago. Britain's tricky weather, its restricted airfield space, the short nights of summer and the foggy ones of winter-these and other limitations had once seemed formidable enough to prevent a single 1,000-plane raid. It will take less ingenuity, aggressive forethought and experimental courage...
...burlap scare started when Jap warships swooped into the Bay of Bengal, threatened to cut supply lines to India-source of 99% of world jute, from which burlap is made. With U.S. burlap stockpiles down to a bare three months' supply, something had to be done. It was. In March, WPB rated cotton-bagging at A2, only one notch below military cotton cloth. Month later Washington went a step further, forced all heavy-goods cotton mills to put 20-40% of their looms on cotton-bagging...
Supermania is the only word for their devotion to this irrepressible Citizen Fixit, who smacks death rays back into the cannon, restores toppling skyscrapers to their foundations, knits broken bridges together with his bare hands, and who has brought a new cry into the world: "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's-SUPERMAN...
...Gandhi, would not necessarily declare war against Japan, but it "becomes an ally of the Allied powers simply out of gratefulness in payment of debt, however overdue. Human nature thanks a debt or when he discharges a debt. All I have done is make this appeal [for independence] on bare and inherent justice and hope to find an echo in the British heart. Britons play desperately on the physical field. Let them play desperately on the moral field and declare that India's independence is fair, irrespective of India's demands...
...which is still set up from the last printing (first of two previous editions was in 1939) a method long used by telephone companies Worry furrows the Fahey brow only when a new edition nears press time, because not so much as a postage stamp of space must go bare, and he must fill in from memory all the spaces under the pictures and around the figures. The assorted facts tailored to fit these spaces spellbind Navy buffs and pros. And Mr. Fahey has profitably found out that Navy fanciers are legion...