Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capturing the look of young love. "My companion," muses Valerio, "was a girl of 16, with a crown of golden hair, a shining innocent face; she wore green wool gloves and shoes with medium heels and knitted stockings that came to the hem of her coat, where her bare knees peeked out, a little purple from the cold...
...cast. In Alabama, where Stevenson was running well ahead in the statewide count, Ike carried Mobile, the first Republican to do so since General Grant carried the state in 1872. In Rhode Island, solidly Democratic since 1924 Ste venson overcame an early Ike lead to edge ahead by a bare 1,000 votes...
...operational requirements of all participating air forces. Specifications for the standard fields: 8,000-ft. runways (a compromise between the U.S.A.F.'s demand for 9,000 ft. and the R.A.F.'s insistence that 6,000 ft. is plenty); standardized lighting, storage and fueling facilities. Beyond these bare essentials, each air force builds its own barracks, canteens and bowling alleys-at its own expense. To get a standard airfield ready for occupation by Americans, the U.S. shells out an extra $12 to $18 million...
...damp, crowded tents, tramping across muddy fields to exhume crates of spare parts stacked in the open for lack of hangar space. Ground controllers still radio instructions to hovering planes from the backs of olivedrab trucks, parked near the runways. At the 48th Fighter Bomber's bleak, bare base at Chaumont, the Chief of Staff...
Down the runway they sped, Felix and the Constellation. The blast from the right inboard engine whipped his tattered shirt, but Felix only curled his bare toes tighter around the housing. Spectators at the terminal building spotted the figure behind the strut, and gestured in mute horror as the plane sped by. Joseph Hernandez, the flight steward, caught the meaning of their signals just in time to see the big double wheel leave the ground, with Felix still clinging tight, and fold forward into the wing...