Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This second and smaller section looks slightly more like the conventional cellar, with the ceiling now criss-crossed by bare pipes. Several rooms, such as the noise and anechoic chambers, are of a completely technical nature. The curved eastern end of the building squeezes several rooms into pie-shaped sectors...
...name was infinitely more imposing than his appearance. Fifty-six-year-old General Kaiser is a bare 5 ft. 2 in. tall. Nevertheless, he is a big man - a leader of fierce Nepalese troops in both World Wars, a noted archeologist honored by the French for digging around in Gautama Buddha's birthplace near Nepal's border. Between wars he was Nepal's Foreign Minister, mayor of Kathmandu and director general of archeology...
...began preaching while still a student at the University of Padua (he estimates that he has talked to a round total of 4,000,000 people). His favorite authors are the two great Catholic mystics, Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, and in his tiny, bare, blue-walled room in Rome's Via Ripetta he spends most of his time praying. During his travels he tries to keep himself always "in communion with...
...only as a guest. In a Buddhist ceremony in Kandy as old as the island's history, golden-robed chieftains and 100 richly caparisoned elephants (decked in ruby necklaces and white pantaloons) paraded the streets in dressy dignity to celebrate a new independence. Jasmine-decked maidens and bare-breasted Sinhalese youths with bells on their ankles whirled in ancient dances...
Every morning, the students file into the bare assembly room, the boys seating themselves on one side and the girls on the other, for daily worship. The meeting begins with the usual few moments of silence. Then Principal Walton slowly unwinds his long legs and rises to read from the Bible. There is a period of silence again, and the pupils file...