Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women-some of them-were going to dress with rare elegance this winter. They were going to bare their shoulders, drape themselves in extravagant yards of rich cloth and go out on the town festooned with about every feminine furbelow short of a bone in the nose. The fabric restrictions, the drab colors and tailored lines of wartime were out. An opulent era of furs, jewels, lame, rustling silk and bouncing bustles, of feathers, tassels, braid and decontrolled nudity was here...
...fine fall day last week New York's Senator James M. Mead stood alone at the Hyde Park grave of Franklin Roosevelt. He stood there for a space, bare head bowed. Then 60-year-old Jim Mead, Democratic candidate for governor, went on to Poughkeepsie, where he spoke at the Nelson House, eulogizing the late President...
Heart Squeeze. A fascinating operation was described by London's Surgeon Hamilton Bailey. He reported that by massaging the heart with his bare hands he had restored to life patients who had seemingly died on the operating table. Mr. Bailey* is one of the first surgeons to resort to this operation systematically...
...might expect, the throne-room of the New England Watch and Ward Society is a cold, bare cell in the far-reaches of the Christian Endeavor Building, just across from the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children and nigh unto the stronghold of the Anti-vivisection League. In the midst of two city blocks of good-doings, this traditionally New England watchdog of morality slowly undergoes a transition that may transform a 20th Century Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some...
...bare legged "Cliffsters yielded not so much as a hair ribbon for three periods. Desperate in the closing minutes of the struggle, the quarterback of the Charles River Chargers called a squeeze play on the next pitch. The center was low and outside and in the shower roam he said it was the "Christmas Night" perfume of the Radcliffe left tackle that made him score a touchdown in the wrong end song...