Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Bar's wide wooden counter, MacKenzie County farmers, their jeans heavy with cash, drank up 40 cases of beer a day. At Christensen's hardware store they stripped the shelves nearly bare. They played poker, guzzled, loafed, had Doc Winter put gold in their teeth...
Virginia-born Lady Astor sometimes enlivens London dinner parties with semi-serious tirades against American pin-up girls: "Bare legs! It's disgusting! Our Army ought to be ashamed of itself!"* Last week a batch of grubby British "art" magazines set her off in public. Armed with a stack of them, she rose in the House of Commons and touched off one of those exchanges which a British wit has called "Asterisks...
Wendell Willkie got a bare majority of New Hampshire's eleven delegates, fewer than his supporters expected. This was the standout fact in the confused balloting of the first U.S. preferential primary...
...Army colonel made a solemn speech to a hushed gathering that half filled the small, bare University of Hawaii's auditorium. His audience had gathered at the Army's request. Though most Hawaiian Japanese speak English, many of these did not. So they sat stiffly in straight-backed chairs, listening uncomprehendingly. Then up to the platform stepped Staff Sergeant Howard Hiroki, veteran of the South Pacific, to interpret the officer's words. Sixteen Japanese-Americans in the audience stood up. To each of them was given a Purple Heart, as wife, sweetheart or next...
...time the Russian man-in-the-street knew what Voronov looked like. One photograph showed him receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...