Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine backing slowly around the hairpin curves and through the snowsheds. It stopped briefly at Truckee, rolled on across the Nevada line to Reno, on to the Southern Pacific division point at Sparks. As darkness fell, the train picked up speed, racing along the alkali sinks of the bare Nevada countryside...
...driver tapped out a signal on the back door and an old lady let me into a room that looked like a set for a Hitchcock murder mystery - complete even to a single, weak, bare light bulb suspended from the ceiling and throwing weird shadows on the cracked walls...
...Berlin, and certainly surpassed the obelisks, as characterless as paperweights, with which they have dotted Eastern Europe in the past two years. Instead of a tank, or a bust of Stalin, it featured a high-breasted, neoclassic lady holding a king-size palm leaf 42 feet above her bare bronze toes...
...newsless fortnight wore on, nameless "experienced Moscow observers," "usually informed sources," reliable diplomats" and "authoritative sources" began rearing their heads in dispatches from all four capitals. Gradually, however, the bare outlines of what was going on did become somewhat clearer (see INTERNATIONAL). In Moscow, where even these outlines were not visible to newsmen, the correspondents took to framing their cables in advance, leaving blanks to be filled in after "meeting ended " and "meeting lasted ." To make sure that it got out such news-or any real news-first, the A.P. booked a long-distance telephone line to London for three...
High Prophet. Those who greeted him included men in loincloths, women with bare breasts, pious Hindus with shaven heads, Moslems boldly wearing red fezzes. One aged grandmother had come six miles from her village to see Nehru. After glimpsing him, she said patronizingly in her vernacular: "He's a nice enough looking fellow." She confided she had expected to see some sort of a king...