Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan dealers began ringing Housewife Brunner's bell last week. Offers climbed from $1,000 to $2,000. Hastily Mrs. Brunner transferred her prize to a bank vault, and moved her china cabinet over a few feet to hide the bare spot where her Homer had been...
...used to set his bullying son to spy on and punish the pupils. Called a born criminal by his father, the boy delighted in dreaming up ingenious punishments. Sometimes he forced the students to empty huge garbage cans and then refill them piece by piece with their bare hands. One day the students rebelled and jammed the rector's son head-first into an empty can. An investigation followed. The rector was dismissed and Student Hirthammer lost sight...
What Beulah needed, Adela decided, was her mother: "Someone who could say to her, 'Louise . . . you ought not to sit there in a bright, striped blue-green dress with your arms bare to the shoulder . . . your arms aren't your best point . . . they look too strong...
...bare four days before the opening of Prague's International Music Festival, music-loving Czechs got an impressive answer to a question they had been asking for a year: Whom will the Russians send? The answer came in a red-starred C-47 direct from Moscow: Russia had sent thin, 40-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the world's five greatest living composers...
...decision was only a small step toward complete equalization. The manufactured goods affected by the order are only a bare 4% of the carloads moved each year, only 6% of the railroads' annual revenue...