Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Story City it nipped the knees of five bare-legged chorus girls stalled in a drift until farmers rescued them. An Iowa medico had to take to a bobsled to get to his childbirth case. While Des Moines faced a temporary milk shortage, stranded farmers around the countryside, their milk cans brimfull, poured milk into washing machines and horse tanks...
...good as animals in the jungle. They came on in polygenetic clothes: in shorts and sneakers, or Malayan dress, or just their underwear. They forced natives to lead them through tangled byways. They pushed about with high, merry tail, like hunting dogs, sniffing out coveys of defenders. With their bare hands they made rafts of logs and rode down rivers such as the Perak. They stole bicycles, food and shoes from Malayans and Chinese, went forward faster, stronger and better shod than before. They grabbed barges at Penang, skimmed the coast and tried to make landings below British positions. They...
Paris' Eiffel Tower is a gaunt, startling skeleton of bare iron bones which hypersensitive esthetes have often called "a horrible thing ... a monster of the imagination." But ever since it was finished in 1889, the 984-foot tower has been jealously adored as a symbol of Paris. It has been visited by 18 millions. It has traveled worldwide by post card, is clearly imprinted on the mind's eye of a large part of the world's population. It has inspired countless little boys playing with sets of Meccano...
...city the Japanese chose to bomb was completely defenseless. Its streets were bare of uniformed soldiers, tanks, army trucks. Barracks and military headquarters were empty. Day before Japanese planes had scouted it, had met no antiaircraft fire. General Douglas MacArthur had kept his word: Manila was protected only by the international law of "the open city...
Says this report: "The war lays bare a situation which brooks no further delay. Decisive remedial measures must be taken in our time if worse calamity is to be averted. ... If this situation is not wisely handled it might lead to such revolutionary or reactionary folly as would bring immense loss and suffering to all classes. . . . Very big social changes are inevitable and rightly due. . . . Christian people . . . have been too ready to resent the application of a Christian critique to their own social standards and practices...