Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anything which affects this competition may favor certain plasmagenes above the others, allowing the favored ones to multiply abnormally, as rabbits once did in Australia. A change in the balance of plasmagenes affects the cell's chemical behavior, as rabbits affected Australia by eating much of its rangeland bare of grass. The cell's genes take no part in the transformation...
What comes out of Lester Young's saxophone sounds to some people like a snow shovel being dragged along a bare sidewalk. Peewee Russell's distinctive improvisations have been compared to those of a dying quail. But neither simile is apropos in the case of Bud Freeman. His playing is not as raucous as Young's nor as feeble as Russell's. It is subdued, vibratoed, and a little raspy like the sound of an electric shaver after it has been dropped a couple of times...
Most of the worst shortages had ended by year's end. Once-bare shelves were heaped with white shirts; nylon and meat lines melted away; "sale" was reintroduced into the language. There was more than there had ever been-at a price. In turning it out, the U.S., by any temperate standard, had done a giant...
Relaxing slightly after the three strenuous fall months. when Mark I was disassembled in Cruft and reassembled in the new building, Professor Aiken and his staff sat down briefly on December 19 to take a long view of their work both past and present. A bare two and a half years had passed since Mark I had been dedicated and turned immediately to recondite wartime problems. yet this infant department was now in an optimistic boom of expansion that promised to put the University in the lead in an uncharted science...
...small, bare, stuffy room in Berlin, a 60-year-old man sat nervously in a straight-backed chair, facing an eight-man tribunal. He was a famous man, a great conductor-Wilhelm Furtwängler. With a nervous stammer he groped for words...