Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striking workmen, living in the gashouse neighborhood of Stamford's grubby South End, could look across an inlet to fashionable Shippan Point, where Plant Manager William Hoyt owns a house close by the Stamford Yacht Club. Even farther apart than these two worlds were the bare union headquarters above a local dime store and President Carey's ample office in New York's towering Chrysler Building...
...comic world in which everyone was either too fat or too thin. Plump, pug-faced William Hogarth was perhaps harder to take. With less wit, he had gone deeper into the cynical, sensual, swaggering spirit of his time, and used his engraving tools, like a moral surgeon, to lay bare the malignant tumors of cruelty, ignorance and greed...
...control of the Pacific. At both Paris peace conferences (1899 and 1919) it lost. Last week, the Navy showed that it was out to get the bases this time, and no mistake. Without waiting for diplomats to settle the legal status of islands once held by the Japs, the bare-knuckled admirals laid their own proposal before Congress...
Klein's is not a pretty place. Its floors are bare. There are no saleswomen. Customers must select dresses themselves from the crude iron racks, try them on in crowded public dressing rooms. Klein's does not advertise-except to keep customers away on holidays when the store is closed...
Renie, mononymic Hollywood fashion designer, peered into the future, spied something eye-bugging: "transparent covering over the bosom for cocktail and evening clothes-and complete exposure in some instances." To the surprise of few, the Hollywood-Broadway axis straightway began to bare its collective breast...