Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singing a song about Georgia. One of the litter bearers said: "Here you, what you doing on that mule? Get off and let one of these fellows ride who need it." So the skinner got off and we lifted the blind soldier on to the mule's bare back. After that my job was to balance the blind man up there...
...grandstand is bare. Its green & white striped roof is streaked and mottled. The gaudy umbrellas are folded and locked away. Inside the arched entrance of Newport's famed Casino, newly installed racks hold a few bicycles, and a sign reads: "Officers Club. For members only." From one or two of the ten still playable courts comes the subdued pock of a quiet game. Ten other courts are overrun by rank grass. Old Tom Pettitt, the Superintendent of Tennis, straw hat on head, still sits on the clubhouse porch. The deserted Championship Court is kept inviolate, awaiting the return...
...Critic George Jean Nathan, following his own fetishes, urged that "once a girl strips, she should be revealed not in bare anatomy but in a very sheer thin blue dress with a white lace collar...
...boys. Frankly, it's a knack multiple endeavor is relatively easy for an old newspaperman (I quit the racket in 1939, when the bottom fell out of the price of old newspapers). The facility remains: I can fall out on the double for reveille in my bare feet, putting on my GI shoes as I run down the stairs. I lace 'em up, too--living as I do on the fourth floor, I have plenty of time...
...result, Faulkner points out, is to render the bare soil a ready prey to drought or erosion by rain. Appalled at the damage done by the moldboard plow during its 200-year history, Faulkner observes that with all their machinery U.S. farmers get less yield per acre than Chinese peasants...