Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born of Desperation. The basis of future Japanese naval and naval-air war was thus laid bare. With their air force in tatters and their navy cut to shreds, the enemy was preparing for a last-ditch defense by any means at hand. And to the Japanese, that meant murder and suicide...
...marched through the streets demanding the resignations of Ministers Frenay and Ramadier. There was little belligerency, no revolutionary cries, but there was determination. For the goods they confiscated the prisoners often paid in I.O.U.s, which the storekeepers took to the Government for reimbursement. In many shops the shelves were bare. Several big shops, among them Paris' famed Cent Mille Chemises ("100,000 Shirts"), put up their shutters...
...meeting of the Cabinet and issued a "reverent statement relative to the burning of the Imperial Palace." Other broadcasts wailed that "the greater part of metropolitan Tokyo" was "literally scorched to the ground." To the Japanese people Suzuki sadly announced: "Our beautiful capital must be completely replanned from a bare start...
...lives with his son and daughter-in-law in an old, nondescript red brick house in Washington. There the Admiral has a bare combination bedroom and office. His old painted iron bed, which his daughter-in-law considers a monstrosity, is as chipped as a battleship's anchor. On the walls are a few Navy cutlasses. In a locker ("closet" to landlubbers) is a supply of brandy. The Admiral, who smokes furiously, drinks little, but relishes a nip of brandy in the evening...
...Fiji Islands. In the summer of 1943 it landed on New Georgia for its baptism of fire. There the 43rd Division had been fighting a grisly campaign to seize Munda airfield. Men lived in foxholes where infiltrating Japanese sometimes found them and fought them with knives and bare hands...