Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Szechwan Province (biggest city: Chungking), drought threatened the crops. Seven Chungking patriots organized a "Praying-for-the-Rain Dragon Corps." They paraded in time-honored rainmaking costume: short trousers, bare chests, bands of green grass around their heads. They shouted and beat gongs...
...training ship. Conway boys were meant to learn seamanship without the help of modern conveniences, and the heavy old cannon that still glowered through the square gun ports were part of a boy's lessons in naval history. To the greenhorn the Conway also looked grimly bare - until he discovered that in exactly ten minutes her crew could let down canvas walls, swing out hundreds of folding desks, blackboards and benches, and turn her decks into floating classrooms for 800 boys...
Overlooking it all, on a hilltop, was the modest wooden home of the Navy's Pacific Fleet Command-the nerve center of the naval force which now rules millions of square miles of ocean. In a bare little cottage which he shared with two other officers lived Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. In the cottage next door, adjoining bedrooms were labeled: "Spruance Room," "Halsey Room...
...Essen I talked to an industrialist who was sitting in his bare room, playing Mozart on a violin. I remarked that it would be easier to abandon the present site of Essen and go into the open country and build there. No, he said, they had considered that. But they had decided that it would be easier to rebuild Essen on its present site: electricity conduits, gas and water mains were already in the ground...
Isabella received Minister Sickles in her negligee, her huge breasts half-bare, her mane of hair hanging down to her waist. She had had as many men in her life as Sickles had had women-an indiscriminate series of ambassadors, footmen, Italian tenors, cabinet ministers, army privates. Sickles and Isabella reacted like magnet and iron. As a sop to convention, Isabella forthwith converted him to Catholicism, arranged for him a marriage of convenience with one of her ladies in waiting. In Madrid they began to call him "Yankee King of Spain." It was all very perplexing to his friends back...