Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the curtain went up, the stage was bare, except for a few pieces of scenery with their brown canvas backs to the audience. The dancers appeared from the wings in their practice clothes: men in dark overalls, girls in black bathing suits. They began to move and gesture. Someone backstage dropped his tools with a loud clatter. In the audience, a small voice asked "Maman, where is the music...
...these people blasting away with dynamite and gunpowder, it's getting so he can't tell a real honest-to-goodness explosion from a fella trying to have a little good clean fun. Why, if all the blasts heard around here were the real McCoy, Cambridge would be as bare today as a Kansas wheatfield after a record harvest...
Without his expensive extras, man is a bare-skinned tropical animal. Unlike the mink, he has no fur coat of his own; unlike the robin, he cannot fly south under his own power. If he insists on living in cold countries, he must create small areas of artificial tropics and stay in them most of the winter. He calls these refuges "buildings," and he is forever trying to make them more comfortable...
...Detroit, almost any car except Chevrolet, Plymouth and Ford could be bought right off showroom floors without trade-ins. DeSotos and Chryslers could be had with only a few dollars worth of extras (v. a postwar average of about $280 worth for all cars) while Packards could be bought "bare" (without accessories), a sign that the market was down. And across the U.S. used-car dealers were suffering their worst slump since...
...bare men too, and then the old grey...