Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes apparently struck first. Their bombs and torpedoes left the 14,000-ton, 45-plane Syokaku flaming and listing so badly that the U.S. pilots doubted her survival (the Navy claimed only that she was severely damaged). When she was hit, the Syokaku's flight decks were bare; her planes were attacking the Lexington...
Capitano Volanis was a short man, but fierce, handlebar mustaches and shoulders like an ox's made him look ominous. Over 70, he could still clamber goatlike among the mountains of Crete, could still spring on a wild goat and throw it with his bare hands. That was why they called him "The Goat," this notorious leader of the out lawed Venizelists, who wanted no kings in Greece & Crete...
...that point, the U.S. had 154 certificated glider pilots, a bare handful of glider pilot-training schools, and fewer than 200 gliders. By summer's end, the Navy had contracted for 14 experimental gliders, including four to carry troops. A score of Army pilots had entered glider training. Marines were training glider troops, flyers and ground crews. Last September a prominent U.S. gliderman, Philadelphia's lanky, shy Lewin B. Barringer, was appointed civilian director of the Army's training program...
...This week an observer in heaven would have seen in one spreading glance at the Eastern Seaboard that the greatest of all wartime changes yet had come to the U.S. For the traffic had shrunk to a trickle. All the great, wide, sweetly curved, excellently engineered highways were nigh bare of automobiles. Streets were almost empty. Red lights and green lights blinked mechanically on & off, but nothing stopped or scrambled on. Gas stations stood idle, and many gas tanks were dry. Parking lots stood empty in cities. Traffic cops had little...
Thanks to the Nazis, Denmark was bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Several days before the 30th anniversary of his accession to the throne, King Christian X ruled that no celebrations be held in his honor. In the once dairy-rich country there was still some milk- but most of it was skimmed. Eggs, butter and bacon, onetime Danish standbys, were scarce as hens' teeth. Thousands of Danes had been exiled to enforced labor in Germany. Two years of German domination had really brought the New Order to Denmark...