Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closed grey van drove into the courtyard of Rome's Fort Bravetta. It stopped by a hillock of brown grass, browner dirt. In front of the hillock stood a nakedly bare pine chair...
...public. On the Sicilian beachhead it looked at one time as though the U.S. ist Division might be driven into the sea and the whole invasion fail. When Belden went to G-2 for information, "an exceptionally intelligent lieutenant colonel" simply handed him "the bare telephone conversations and orders of that day." Said he: "This is the only thing that contains any truth. . . . We are making out a report now, but it is already so different from what happened that in a few days it will be unrecognizable legend...
...customer can choose any size of terminal. They range from one having just the bare essentials (lights, fuel supply, hangar and powerhouse) to the de luxe package for heavy international freight and passenger traffic, complete even to guest houses...
...took notes calmly, feeling little emotion. It was all so cold and bare. I wrote: "There are four chambers fed with these small, innocent, pale blue Zyklon crystals which give off cyanide when exposed to air. Two extra chambers for plain carbon monoxide. Maximum simultaneous capacity: 2,000." Kudriavtsev was still explaining: "On one day, Nov. 3, 1943, they annihilated 18,000 people?Poles, Jews, political prisoners and war prisoners...
Wrote Correspondent Mead: "The women are beautifully dressed. I never thought that prints could be so seductive, but made into simple, low-necked dresses, worn with bare brown legs, and Tripoli-tanean sandals, they lose all that stuffy, towny look that prints too often have. . . 'Gabriella Sports' is now owned by Countess di Robilant [the former Carolyn Kent of Asheville, N.C.], who . . . makes most of the dresses. . . . There's beautiful, pure silk shantung to be had here (all fabrics are fabulously high-priced), which she uses in lovely colour combinations...