Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoners who fell sick was hardly better. Many a man who was sent to the dirt-floored buildings of Shinagawa, lone hospital for 8,000 prisoners near Tokyo, simply went to his death. There was no sanitation; patients slept without blankets on flea-ridden mats. The operating tables were bare boards. When the hospital's crematorium was bombed to rubble, prisoners were forced to cremate the dead on spits over an open fire...
...Bare Cupboard. To the associates went a cosy if disillusioned letter from Bill Jack...
...Monica; beach fires crackled from Long Beach to San Diego. As usual, some of the grunion hunters cuddled in the shadows, glad to forget the original purpose of their parties. But those who kept their minds on grunion splashed madly through the surf, snagging the slippery fish with their bare hands (nets are illegal). Since the tide often reaches its peak about midnight, grunion parties usually run late and long. Some end in a rousing pre-dawn fish...
...Only the bare fact that Japan's U.S.-hating Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, had died "in combat with the enemy" was admitted by Tokyo two years ago (TIME, May 31, 1943). U.S. military sources admitted nothing. Last week a Jap war correspondent, captured in northern Luzon, told more of the story: In a twin-engined Jap bomber escorted by 30 fighters, Yamamoto and half a dozen other bigwigs were inspecting Jap-held Pacific islands. Over Kahili airdrome on southern Bougainville, the bomber circled to land and the escort headed back toward Rabaul...
Whom are you trying to snow when you state that Admiral Nimitz lives in a "bare little cottage?" . . . Personally, I am highly insulted after all the working hours and expensive material we Seabees put into what looks to me to be a palace. ... Or have I been overseas on these islands too long? (SF 2/c) NOEL A. PREECE