Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lend-Lease allocations. Of the first $7,000,000,000 appropriation, over $6,250,000,000 has been allocated, over $3,500,000,000 has been legally committed. Only $324,000,000 has actually been transferred, however. In the six months Lend-Lease has been in effect, a bare $190,000,000 in cargoes has gone abroad...
Died. Jim Carney, 83; in London. In 1887 he fought Jack McAuliffe, Irish world champion, 74 bare-knuckle rounds in Revere, Mass. The fight was a draw...
...everyone knows-including Leon Henderson-it would be virtually impossible to enforce retail price ceilings in the stores without a Gestapo (or even with one). Consumers thus far have ignored all price increases. Storekeepers' only real worry is inventories. By next spring their shelves will probably be bare of certain types of durable goods, and there will be no way to replace them...
...guests at the royal wedding was little Prince William of Prussia (later the German Kaiser) who was seated between two of his British uncles who were wearing kilts. "The little boy amused himself by sinking his teeth and his nails alternately into the bare legs of his relatives . . . [who] were only restrained by the solemnity of the occasion from uttering cries of anguish...
There were tall ones and short ones in the crowd and weights ranged all the way from a hefty 235 pounds down to a bare 125. The two-and-a-half man coaching staff consisting of Chief Boston and Nick Mellen (Al Kevorkian, another assistant, is wavering on the military brink) at times was almost lost in the crowd and naturally it was impossible to make any accurate evaluation of the squad's actual potentialities...