Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then they were stripped and searched again. Cook had somehow picked up $145 in currency and a steel pick. After that jailers took away their shoes, underwear, furniture, and left them in bare cells with nothing but coveralls, woolen socks, and a blanket and toothbrush apiece. Their meals were served on paper plates, eaten with wooden spoons...
...Along the lanes and highroads, past the bare beech forests and the smooth slopes of the Downs, came the farmers of Sussex. Afoot and in wagons, they converged on Chichester Cathedral, whose distant spire was a grey needle against the sea. They filed into the famed early Norman church, packed it to the doors, and waited self-consciously. For the first time in 300 years, the British festival of Plough Monday was being celebrated...
...regarded by many as the second most powerful man in America, occupies a 10-by-18-ft. office in the east wing of the White House. The room is entirely devoid of the usual trappings of power and fame. Only a thin coat of white paint covers the walls; bare electric wiring runs up the corners and around the baseboards. Hopkins works at an ordinary-sized desk, reasonably new. The rest of the office furniture is also routine: a brown leather couch, on which Hopkins likes to stretch out when receiving visitors, several imitation brass ash trays, and some...
Congressmen moved gingerly. A bare majority was reported to be in favor, but few of them were ready to commit themselves until they knew definitely how the public winds blew. Public opinion showed that most U.S. citizens were in favor of such an act. The Gallup poll showed 63% answering Yes; an Iowa poll (sponsored by the Des Moines Sunday Register), 71%; the FORTUNE poll, 69%; the National Opinion Research Center poll...
Enrico Caruso Jr., son of the late great tenor, took a late plunge into what he hopes will be a "serious singing career," and did it the hard way-amid the smoke, clatter and twirling bare legs of a Buffalo nightspot. One conscientious nightclub reporter, mindful of his duty toward an illustrious musical name, gravely noted in Tenor Caruso's version of the Flower Song from Carmen a tendency to "flat in the upper register." But everybody agreed, after hearing Caruso's What a Difference a Day Made, that his schmalz was terrific...