Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the Dominion, thirsty Canadians found liquor-store shelves bare, bootleggers' prices sky-high (in some instances, $15 for a fifth of Scotch). Result: a demand for substitutes. One of the most popular: a highly scented, highly alcoholic, highly poisonous (if swallowed) skin lotion called lilac water...
...Hundreds of men lay naked on the bare floor without covering of any kind. There was no medicine of any kind. Some afflicted with dysentery remained out in the weather near the latrines until they died...
Then weary men, with a restless look in their eyes, sat behind the front and talked: of the "awful accurate" fire by Jerry snipers and machine gunners, of the bare and hostile Italian field sprinkled by shrapnel, of the muddy holes, of hopelessness and death. They said: "It's sure not a soft...
...Forest. A little fleet of cars took the party ten miles out the Vitebsk road to Goat Hill, overlooking the Dnieper. A light snow was falling on the slender, leaning birches, the bare oaks, the tall evergreens and the huge mounds of frozen sand with the black boots sticking out. Kathy and her companions stumbled over the rough ground, past pits the size of tennis courts, to where Dr. Victor Prozorovsky, senior medical expert of the Atrocities Commission, stood on a freshly turned heap of red sand. He was directing Red Army men as they hacked out frozen, mildewed Polish...
...last week sold 10,000 copies. Its gill-greening quality -and the great value of the book for eye doctors - lies in its superimposed illustrations: turning the pages is like peeling off slices of the eye and parts of its socket, layer upon layer, until all that remains is bare bone. The book consists of five-color transparencies printed on heavy Cellophane and laid on one another in perfect register. On the top Cellophane page appears a serene brown eye, surrounded by part of a nose, cheek and forehead. Turning the page pulls the skin off. Its under side shows...