Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Screams tear the night and the wrecker crew claws into the wreckage with bare hands to get at the injured. A British surgeon is already inside doing something under a flashlight, something quite frightful with his kukris [Gurkha sword] after his morphine has stilled the screaming...
After Washington comes London, and after London the Prime Minister will probably pass through Washington once again. When next John Curtin cocks a foot on his big bare desk in Canberra he should have a shrewd idea of how to guide Australia into its new world...
...cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit or vigilante in a Western stagecoach holdup. He claimed to have knocked out John L. Sullivan in a private bout in Manhattan. Ubiquitous grey-toppered leader of English sporting-life, the Earl deplored the passing of such gentlemanly pursuits as "bare knuckles, toe-to-toe" and bearbaiting. He calculated his personal budget on the assumption that he would die at 80, lived royally and fantastically, kept hordes of Rolls-Royces, loved to flash across the countryside in the midst of a cavalcade of them...
Fenway Park is a bandbox of a baseball stadium that holds about 25,000 people on a good day with a bang-up ball game. Around the field on opening day, Tuesday, were scattered a bare 9,600 devotees of the national sport, waiting to see what effect the tightened draft regulations have had on the caliber of professional baseball...
...British Medical Research Union was optimistic about the new treatment. But doctors at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital who had never heard of Hosa Laboratories or Researcher Thompson, were skeptical. Said one doctor: "Pure bunk." But he admitted a bare possibility that there might be something to H 11. Even specialists have little idea where the eventual answer to cancer will be found...