Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baking at Home. Even the minor strikes looked big to the people closest to them. In Cincinnati the strike that hit home was in the bakeries. Hospitals and school lunchrooms still got bread, but grocery shelves were bare. In some homes, the ancient custom of bread-baking was revived...
...teams ever stirred the fans or stumped the experts like this year's Notre Dame crew. One day they put on terrific second-half rallies; next day they roll up a lead and play second-half dead ducks. They have won six of their twelve games by a bare three-point margin or less...
Empty Larder. President Lewis Clark of the turbulent young C.I.O. meat packers' union had also called out his men. The cattle-pens of Chicago were nearly empty. The big four's refrigerators were bare of their hams and sides of beef, once the envy of a hungry world. Housewives were stampeding butcher shops...
...What I want," Janes told TIME Correspondent William P. Gray in the bare, inhospitable, sandbagged hut he shares with 18 other marines, "is an explanation of what I'm doing here. Then I'll sleep better. . . . We're buttering somebody's bread, riding these coal trains. Why don't these Chinese National troops run their railroads? They've gotta be protected wherever they go. If anybody gives me a good explanation why I'm here, I'll keep still...
Oaks are standing gaunt and bare...