Word: baring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after their appointment, the trustees had a look at the rented Tucker plant. It looked bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard: no workable assembly line, no jigs for mass production, no body presses. There were a few modern die presses and foundry equipment, and a snappy paint shop. In what Tucker called the "machine shop and main assembly plant," only a portable crane was visible...
...leaf of the scuppernong-wine grape. "Rench" was the word for rinse, and "wropping" was the method of braiding pickaninny pigtails. In Mississippi at least, a perjured slave was subject to "have both your ears nailed to the pillory, and cut off, and receive thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, well laid on, at the common whipping post." Then as now, a cockleburr was regarded as a bad thing to get under a saddle...
...music was the high spot of the show in the composing department. With imagination, variety, and a beautiful sense of timing and color, Bonner has woven a scorer which should stand comparison with the best of Pudding music. His orchestration is brassy where it should be, and borrows a bare minimum from the all-too-familiar body of Latin American songs on the market...
...squad's meager practice makes the Crimson's outlook especially grim. In the past two weeks the team has had only one game with Milton, and a bare 20 minutes of practice yesterday afternoon. All this has made the players fairly rusty. Ever since Pete Lawson replaced Jack Snelling as center for the high scoring Morgan Hatch and Nat Harris pair, the new line hasn't had enough time to get used to working together...
Part of the answer lay with an eight-man committee coordinating the work of 25 different U.S. Government agencies. Headed by Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp,* the committee has been at work for the last three weeks fleshing out the plan's bare bones...