Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plan. But the bare references in the communiques revealed the plan of the Fifteenth Army Group.* The essence of the plan was simply that if you take the coasts of an island, you have the island. The air attacks on Sicily's center and its northerly ports of entry, even the ground marches toward railway and other inland centers, supported the battles for the coasts. The U.S. Seventh Army, seizing the southwestern coast, conducted a great backstopping operation, holding down and drawing off sizable enemy forces from the decisive eastern sector. To that canny soldier and conqueror, General Montgomery...
...Robert K. Speer, stocky head of New York University's elementary education department, charged his wife, two of her friends and three private detectives with disorderly conduct. He protested that they had all piled into his hotel room crying "Where's the woman?" while he was bare as a babe. There was no woman, he said, and besides they had carried off a house dress he happened to have around. "You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves," snapped the judge. "Get out of here; get into the war effort...
...lies in the vast untouched rural areas. But, says he, "the urban type of church" will fail there. In backwoods Brazil, says Davis, "people are . . . illiterate, in debt, undernourished, suffering from endemic and parasitic diseases, ignorant of the first principles of hygiene, sanitation, balanced diet, baby care. . . . Homes are bare hovels, crops are blighted by cutworms, and animals are decimated with tuberculosis. . . . When the theological seminaries of Brazil recognize this . . . by including in their curricula courses of rural economics, rural sociology, public health, diet and nutrition, youth activities, handcrafts, nursing . . . church finance . . . the teaching of Christian giving...
Whatever new was to come out of it had not appeared; the wreckage laid bare its old animosities and sins. The major criticism of Raymond Postgate's thriller is that if Croxburn is a representative English village, something is wrong with the U.S. picture of England, for these people could not stand up against anything, let alone the Luftwaffe...
...Detroit, where showrooms have been bare of new pianos for weeks, tone-tired instruments hardly worth $40 a year ago are now snatched from dealers...