Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among last-ditch, Lindbergh isolationists, 38% believe that Hitler will attack the Americas if he wins his war in Europe. Altogether, a solid 72% of the U.S. people think that Hitler will try to conquer the world. But the U.S. is not sure where its defense should begin. A bare majority (51.6%) would use force to defend Britain. A few more (59%) would fight to hold the Philippine Islands (see p. 11). But 83% would defend some part of South America, 67.7% would defend it all. More than 98% would fight for the U.S. itself...
...have to brace itself for if President Roosevelt chose to fire his new economic weapon. The U.S. last season got only 18% of its silk from China and other minor sources, all the rest (273,711 bales) from Japan. Loss of this supply would mean i) an epidemic of bare or lisle-clad shanks, 2) abrupt dislocation of the U.S. hosiery industry (97,000 workers), 3) lesser repercussions on many another U.S. clothing manufacturer...
...party and their luggage aboard, and sped eastward. Said the Captain as he peeled $100 bills off a fat bankroll, to pay baggage men: "Well have to win the war to pay for this trip." In Washington, Chargé d'Affaires Dr. Hans Thomsen scraped the Embassy bare of cash to pay the Captain's airline bill...
...estate, gardening, running the theater. The theater, made of pungent, unpainted wood, with seats for some 80 people, has a circular stage on three levels, with a balcony overhead for patients with delusions of grandeur. There are no curtains or scenery, only two pillars in the background, a bare table and chairs. Floodlights of three different intensities play on the stage, corresponding to the patient's mood: soft white, red for excitement, dim blue for soliloquies...
Coney Island was not always the garish proletarian mecca it is today. Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Sam Houston, other aristocrats disported themselves on its then remote plage. Walt Whitman too was crazy about it: "The long bare unfrequented shore ... I had all to myself . . . where I loved after bathing to race up and down...