Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial opened with a lively debate between opposing counsel over whether privacy was a 1) civil, 2) political or 3) property right. Judge Roy V. Rhodes quickly put a stop to this argument, got down to bare facts. Miss Lawrence, wearing a tight-fitting red sweater and black & white checked skirt, was called to the stand. Good & loud, she told her story...
Died. Sir John Harry Lee Fagge, 71; in Marshfield, Mass. An English-born younger son, he made a living mowing lawns, trimming hedges, repairing furniture in Pepperell, Mass., keeping his noble birth a secret until he succeeded to the bare-cupboard baronetcy of Fagge in 1930, sailed to claim his title, met, wooed and won the English-born widow of a wealthy U. S. manufacturer...
...nther spoke of "linked destinies," and the Conservative Speaker of Norway's Storting, Carl J. Hambro, hurried to Stockholm to discuss the pact. But facts were cruel and disruptive: Finland now lies in Russia's sphere, Sweden is geographically Germany's pawn, Norway's bare face is Britain's to slap. A mutual defense pact might therefore anger all three of the major powers. But since combined German-Russian wrath is much the greatest Scandinavian fear, the alliance would probably have to favor those two nations. Germans, taking this as a matter of course, tolerated...
Prince Wadiyar wore the primrose path bare. In his 51 years he made 19 trips to Europe, encumbered always with a troupe of male and female dancers, singers, musicians. Mysore cooks went everywhere with him to prepare lavish, condimented Indian dishes. The Yuvaraja'?, parties at London's Dorchester House hotel were famous. A passionate gadgeteer, Prince Wadiyar, clad in magenta turban and sky-blue tweed frock coat, would stand all night under arc lights and before a microphone, alternately crooning into it U. S. jazz hits, chatting through it with his guests, and barking orders at his servants...
...over 60 and I'll challenge any one of your millions of readers half my age to a bare-foot race, one, three or five miles...