Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick and Pat fought hard. Short of cash, they lived in a bare little house in Whittier and were beset by a smelly, cannibalistic brood of minks kept by the people next door (says Nixon: "I've never had any use for minks since then, the Truman variety or any other kind"). Against the advice of professional politicians, Nixon took on his opponent in five public debates before audiences largely favorable to Voorhis. Nixon argued against the evil deeds of the New Deal as effectively as he had urged the good works of the praying mantis and the syrphid...
Although there is no August lull for the candidates, there is one for the voter. While the nominees and their strategists are busily planning ways & means of getting the voter's attention and his vote, he can inspect the bare bones of the presidential campaign, the chief advantages that each party and its candidate have before the heavy speechmaking...
...Michigan, Democratic Senator Blair Moody and Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams have tenuous holds on their jobs. Moody was appointed by Williams to fill the seat vacated by the death of the late great Arthur Vandenberg; Williams himself was elected by a bare margin. Unpopular outside Detroit, Moody is supported by the unions, but labor leaders are frequently unable to swing the Detroit election. This week, Republicans faced Moody with a tough opponent: Congressman Charles E. Potter, a legless war veteran who has the support of Michigan industrialists, is a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Williams...
When Mitchell was not personally beating up the Star's hoodlums with his bare fists, he somehow managed, singlehanded, to originate most of the advancements of modern journalism. Like the New York Evening Telegram's James Gordon Bennett, Mitchell put editorial cartoons on the front page for the first time. Like the World's Joseph Pulitzer, he used banner headlines, developed reader promotion, and went in for crusades and stunts, e.g., raising a fund to build the Statue of Liberty pedestal. He also brought out several daily editions of the Globe, inaugurated newsstands, and encouraged Ottmar Mergenthaler...
...Bare Facts. In Mays Landing, N.J., Dr. Isley Boone, ex-president of the American Sunbathing Association, termed nudism the only way to world peace, because "it would be difficult to tell which man was your enemy if soldiers wore no clothes...