Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rifleman was so surprised he forgot to use his weapons. This 6-ft. guy of ours grabbed the Jap and started wrestling with him. He got him by the neck and shook him, swinging him all the way around. He had almost killed the Jap with his bare hands while we all stood around looking, until somebody bayoneted...
Like their Chinese comrades, they were almost bare of motorized equipment, pitifully short of supplies, which still had to come by air over the Hump from India. Last week, south of the China theater in Burma, American, British and Chinese troops moved almost imperceptibly closer to regaining the ground over which a supply road could be thrust into China...
...bare bones of the official announcements, U.S. newsmen added their accounts. Eight correspondents and three photographers flew on the raid, among them TIME'S Harry Zinder, whose B-29 crash-landed in a China battle zone on the return trip (see facing page...
...Fowler, the British photographer, Slade, the British correspondent, Talbot, and me by shouting through the windows of our two houses: "Avioni-airplanes!" Talbot and I, sharing the same room, jumped into our clothes, ran out, took a look at the skies and made for the slit trench on a bare mound some 100 yards away. No sooner had the four of us reached the shelter than bombs from 15 planes began exploding around us. Sizzling bomb fragments whizzed into the trench beside my right shoulder. About 30 more large, low-flying planes arrived and, just as Fowler was filming...
...Excepting perhaps the Chinese army, Tito's National Liberation Army has the highest percentage of amputations in the world. Last winter, several hundred bare-foot fighters had to have their frozen legs amputated. Also, the typical wound of the Partisan soldier is the fracture from mine thrower, cannon or bomb, and since hospitalized Partisans often must be moved over rugged terrain in this mobile warfare, the usual result is amputation...