Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, when his patrol was caught by enemy mortar fire, he saw two of his buddies killed. He collapsed. A corpsman found George shaking and crying, trying to dig a hole in the rocky Korean ground with his bare hands. At the division clearing station, when he heard friendly artillery fire, he jumped under his cot and clawed the ground. Sodium amytal and a firm but friendly psychiatrist helped George to relive his troubles, and to see them for what they were. Within a week he was back with his outfit...
...wake of his enthusiasm. He has no sympathy with failure or timidity, and although he suffers at his son-in-law's death, one feels that he considers it a cheap price for the ultimate gain. This is a difficult part to play. Some actors might make Ridgeway a bare, two-dimensional character, since Terrence Rattigan's script alone does not delineate him sufficiently. But Richardson, by his voice inflection, doodling at his desk, and various other mannerisms fills out the role...
Beirut didn't think so. An S 0 S from the Champollion brought a multitude of bare-chested fisherfolk racing to the rescue. But their cockleshell boats capsized in the raging surf, and those who tried to swim out with lines were dragged ashore half-drowned...
Mystic of Mainz. The world knows little about Mathias Griinewald, less, perhaps, than it does about any other first-rank master. Only a handful of paintings and a bare 33 drawings have come to light in four centuries, but these are enough to make his fame. His greatest work, a tremendous altarpiece of nine paintings which now stands in the museum at Colmar, Alsace, contains a magnificent painting of the Crucifixion. A mystic with a realist's sense of physical suffering, Griinewald made the Crucifixion an epic of wounds and pain seldom, if ever, matched on canvas...
Tight Budget. In Milwaukee, when police arrested Anton Lagozny for drunkenness and asked how he had accumulated a bank balance of more than $12,000 on a $50-a-week salary, he replied: "I live frugally, spending money only for meat, beer and whisky." Bare Essentials. In Batavia, Ohio, after jurors in a murder trial protested to Judge Harry Britton that his "no newspapers" ban was putting them hopelessly behind in their comic strips, the court instructed bailiffs to clip out the funnies and distribute them daily...