Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting from Scratch. When the late Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the patron saint of Pakistan, arrived in Karachi in 1947 to set up the Moslem state for which he had labored so long, he started from scratch. In the government buildings there was nothing but bare walls and a few rickety tables-no chairs, no typewriters, no files or filing system. Telephones were luxuries, and at first government orders were passed back and forth on scraps of paper; there were no bookkeepers, stenographers or clerks, for the simple reason that, in British India, Moslems were fighters and farmers but never office...
...first triangular swim meet of the season, Adams splashed to a bare 26 to 22 win over Eliot after lagging behind until the 200 yard relay of the six event program. Dunster also fell prey to the Gold Coaster's 18 to 30 and to Eliot...
...Black Carriages. Week in & week out, though, the rector held services. Each Sunday he unlocked the church doors, robed himself and preached two services to the bare 13th century walls. He sang the hymns himself, and composed his sermons with care. Occasionally curious visitors would drop in to hear him. To supplement their attendance, he placed cards in the first six pews bearing the names of his predecessors-Warleggon rectors since the days of the Normans. "I am not sure I do not prefer my congregation of ghosts," he would say. "They cannot object to any innovation I make...
Throughout Van Fleet's tour in Korea, U.S. correspondents, always reluctant to credit a general with anything more than bare literacy, continued to characterize him as a "bluff soldier"-a combat type with no political brains. What they meant was that he did not agree with their judgment of how to treat Korea's Syngman Rhee. Van Fleet, simple in the sense that he knows a simple issue when he sees one, recognized Rhee as the only Korean leader of any substance. His policy was to work with Rhee while the U.S. State Department...
...needed was a properly decorative quadruped. He introduced a pair (male & female) of dainty spotted chital deer. With no natural enemies to bother them, the chital deer multiplied wonderfully. They were lovely to look at, and they were soon making a mess of the Andaman Islands, eating the forests bare and ruining the native farms...