Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Superfort over Japan, Staff Sergeant Henry E. Erwin, of Alabama, picked up a burning phosphorus bomb with his bare hands, tossed it out a copilot's open window. Despite his searing burns, Erwin lived to have the Medal of Honor pinned on his bandages. Sergeant Thomas A. Baker, of New York, severely wounded on Saipan, refused to retreat, was left propped against a tree, with a pistol containing eight rounds. Later, when his body and empty pistol were found, eight Japanese lay dead around...
...bloody for his taste, concludes Author Turner. Dick Barton, the BBC detective to whom an estimated one in three of the British population listens nightly, is straitjacketed by all the restraints of a U.S. comic-strip hero. In his struggles, Dick may fight with nothing but his bare fists...
Miss Karasz succeeds in staying serene even when her children call her work "bad modern." Her house is completely bare of wallpaper except for her twelve-year-old son's room, which is papered with one of her designs. "We had to change that paper three times," she recalls, "before he was satisfied...
...simply hadn't known how to vote. Pulling his ballot out of its envelope, he noticed it was just as he left it seven days ago. The names were still as empty as the circles beside them were bare. Most of the country had pencilled an X in the circle under President; Vag took out his pen and entered the letters V A G in the ring. He could vote for himself any time and best of all, he didn't need a stamp...
Except for the depot, there are only five buildings in Marshall Pass, Colo. Twice a week the train with the mail from Salida comes chuffing up the Denver & Rio Grande Western, snuffling around the bare ribs of the Colorado mountains like an old hound dog on a cold trail. In the quiet at 11,000 feet, when the wind is right, Postmaster Gus Latham can hear the train coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last...