Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department's new building in Foggy Bottom, in an architectural style no longer Greek and not yet modern, bustled with their comings & goings. Inherited from the War Department in 1947, "New State," as the cab drivers called it, was little used to such pomp & circumstance. Its bare rooms held few memories; its stark corridors suggested no history. Even its name lacked the savor of Quai d'Orsay or Whitehall...
Lost River. The site itself has more jackrabbits than humans. Sharp cinder cones and bare-ribbed buttes thrust out of stone-black lava flows. The Big Lost River sinks without a trace into its black, broken ground. The place is 20 miles from the Craters of the Moon, 90 miles from the River of No Return. Except for 20,000 acres of desert grazing land, the government holds title to the entire area...
...gong at 8:30 a.m., a reinforced sales force of 200 (normal: 25) was washed aside by the tide of bargain hunters. The hunters fought their way to the racks and crawled over them like Japanese beetles on a bush. By 11 o'clock, the racks were stripped bare. Filene's rang up an estimated $65,000 in sales and, to boot, had netted an inestimable amount in good-will advertising...
Green Pastures. Vargas led the way slowly into the house, sat down near the door. There was not a picture on the wall, nor a rug on the floor. Over the unpainted table, bare except for letters and newspapers lying on a small radio, hung a naked light bulb. In the adjoining room stood a metal bed, a lavender-colored wardrobe, a few nondescript wooden chairs. "My parents were farmers," Vargas began. "Now that I am an old man, it is good to be back in my childhood scenes...
...Mexican art history: Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. Together they formed a government-backed syndicate of artists, published a manifesto announcing their intention "to socialize artistic expression." To the syndicate that meant ditching easel painting and going to work on walls-wherever they could find a big, challenging bare...