Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bare Facts. In Decatur, Ind., Mrs. Elgie May Simmons filed suit for divorce, complaining that in six years of marriage her husband had bought her only one dress (price...
...French were cold, hungry, shabby, miserable. Youngsters complained about the bleak future, housewives about bare cupboards, workers about the high cost of living, shopkeepers about inflation, farmers about the lack of goods, industrialists about a shortage of materials, and everybody about selfish bureaucrats, heavy taxes and the scarcity of good wine...
...Storm. After that, the tiny vessel sailed south to the 20th degree of latitude, headed west before the warm trade winds. For five weeks the women & children sunbathed on the deck, the men lounged, bare-armed, in the cockpit. Then, on Nov. 27, 60 miles off Cape Hatteras, the Erma ran into a freezing westerly gale. She was assailed by storm after storm. Sledging seas sent water spraying through her leaking cabin ports. Everything-clothes, shoes, blankets, bulkheads-grew wet with sea water. It was bitter cold...
...Bare-kneed, clean-scrubbed nine-year-old Michael Spivak stepped to the podium of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Dignified Sir Ernest MacMillan, the Toronto's conductor, gravely stepped down, handed Michael his birch baton. Michael handed him an ocarina in exchange...
...Willow Run the last of the Government-owned machines were being moved out only this week. Hunt will have to build up a production staff to install miles of conveyor belts in the bare building, move in acres of machine tools, erect long assembly lines. He has also taken on a job which some auto companies prefer to leave to outsiders, the highly specialized job of making his own bodies. It will be some two months before the huge presses to stamp them out are in the plant. Outside of this, Hunt will have to depend almost entirely on outside...