Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colonel, who was an American liaison officer with the Chinese Army, peeled off his gun, unbuttoned his shirt, let the sweat pour down his dusty face in tired rivulets. I peeled down to bare middle and the heat slowly settled in to choke us. The train was making about six miles an hour and the colonel was telling us about the evacuation of Hengyang...
Noss would also discard the Western collection plate, substitute a wooden box at the door. Says he: "The Japanese do not have our matter-of-fact attitude to ward money. For example, to give a tip to a hotel maid by handing her the cold and bare coins is to show one's lack of breeding; one will wrap the money in clean white paper, and if possible put this little parcel on a tray. Perhaps the Christian people are used to it now, but lifting the offering to the sound of clinking and jingling coins is often quite...
...porch of the 58-year-old Dutcher Hotel was bunting-draped. In the tree-shaded park behind it-which looks like all U.S. village parks from Idaho to Georgia-1,000 people crowded behind the roped-off lanes. Men, coatless on the hot day, women in summer frocks and bare legs, young girls in pinafores and bobby socks, waited for a look at their famous neighbor, the man who owns the 486-acre Dapplemere place two miles outside of town...
China was sick with inflation. Somehow a nation whose masses had always lived close to bare subsistence could endure the shortage of goods, the 360% rise in the cost of living. It could wear threadbare cotton garments more threadbare; it could do with a daily bowlful less of rice. But the enduring masses could not correct the evils that trailed inflation-profiteering, black markets, "squeeze," public cynicism, official corruption...
...recalcitrant prisoner. When the guards refused, he called in MPs. The nine ringleaders of the prison gang (six white men, three Negroes) were taken into a tar-papered room. While the major stood outside, armed with a pistol and a submachine gun, the MPs flogged the prisoners' bare back sides with weighted rubber hoses. One man had to be taken to the hospital. By night fall, the story was all over camp - and Major Lefkoff's military career had ended...