Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this means a kind of hell for the bomber crews which the bare loss figures do not convey: old friends suddenly gone from the Red Cross snack bars, destruction and blood and death in many of the planes which limp home. It definitely does not mean that U.S. daylight bombing is to be abandoned or diminished, but it does mean that the price of such bombing must be high until the Eighth Air Force finds an answer to the Nazi fighter system...
...Pursglove, W. Va., on Sunday, the men from Scott's coal hollow held a meeting. Stiff in their Sunday clothes, they flocked to Dallas Hall, paused for a brief beer, stood bareheaded in the bare room to hear their leaders. Outside a brisk wind whipped powdery snow around the houses that cling drunkenly to the hillsides...
...freezing of movement has meant the freezing of things. Even if there are in one place and time plenty of blue coolie-cloth jackets, there is no easy way to move the jackets to those places where there are many bare backs...
...Rommel's rear, but the Germans had refused to budge until this morning when they fled before Montgomery's powerful advance. 'We tried to knock 'em off Old Baldy,' said Sergeant Vernon Mugerditchian of Waukegan, Ill., jerking his head at a rounded bare steep cliff. 'We tried first with one battalion and then another, but we just couldn't. They were lookin' down our throats...
When Dr. Koussevitsky raised his baton for the world premiere of William Schumann's second secular cantata, "A Free Song," the combined Radcliffe and Harvard choirs had a bare three weeks of rehearsal behind them; the baritone soloists had three days. Yet the technical difficulties of the music had all been mastered, the opening dissonance was clean, the final "We Hear Liberty" rang out, and with very few and minor exceptions the performance was all that could have been expected. There was no lack of smoothness, maturity, etc, by the non-professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor...