Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody could deny that the Little Flower was one of the world's half-dozen busiest men, and far & away the world's busiest busybody. Managing the earth's most citified city would be a full-time job for Superman. LaGuardia tosses it off in a bare twelve hours a day. In his ample spare time he runs (without salary) the Office of Civilian Defense in Washington, participates in the Canadian-American Joint Defense Board, makes an average of 700 speeches a year, conducts an occasional orchestra, sits in on occasional Cabinet meetings, dashes...
...military purposes, while "in this country only about 50 per cent of all governmental expenditures, federal, state, and local--are used for this purpose." He likewise points out that despite the billions being spent for national defense, the ordinary cost of the federal government has been reduced but a bare two per cent. Although in one year the defense budget increased from $621,000,000 to $3,404,000-000, non-defense expenditures were decreased only from...
Last week, more than two years after his retirement, in the plain, bare apartment where he had lived for 25 years with the wife he was devoted to, Louis Brandeis died, at 84. Next day the new Supreme Court met for the first session of its first term under a new Chief Justice. Harlan Fiske Stone is a man who solidly stands behind the solid words of Louis Brandeis: "[The makers of the Constitution] conferred, "as against the Government, the right to be let alone-the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized...
...after once earning $2,000 is to lose izzat. Film folk of superior izzat, putting in a phone call to an inferior, wait studiously until the inferior is on the wire before deigning to pick up the telephone receiver. Peter the Hermit, who struts along Hollywood Boulevard in his bare feet, is short on cash but long on izzat...
...game for missing the break that might have gotten the Crimson off to an early lead. If he had been able to get his hands on the pigskin it would have been a sure score as the remaining twenty-five yards or so to the goal was as bare as the midriff on one of next year's bathing suits...