Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From San Francisco to San Diego, thousands of Californians, shaken as though by a giant hand, jumped from their beds, felt the floor move eerily under their bare feet, heard an unearthly jangle of church bells, burglar alarms and shattering window glass at 4:52 a.m. They learned that they had felt the waves of a major earthquake, centering near the little mountain town of Tehachapi, Calif, (pop. 1,685), 75 miles north of Los Angeles...
...bare mountainside building in the Salem* district of the Indian state of Madras, 35 Indian ascetics live and pray together. In the tradition of the Indian sanyasis (holy men), they wear coarse cotton robes dyed a bright saffron. At mealtimes they eat a strict vegetarian diet of tapioca, rice and lentils. When they chant their prayers, they sit cross-legged on the floor. They wear no shoes or sandals, for Indian custom forbids any footgear inside a holy place...
...Final O.K. The rest of the time, Evie Hone works intently in her bare-floored, glass-littered studio, sketching out her windows, painting the glass with her own color formulas, finally supervising the glazier who leads in the thousands of pieces. Her Eton window was so big (40,000 pieces) that she never saw it together until workmen set it in the grey-ribbed chapel. For the best part of a fortnight, Evie sat in the chapel, stared fixedly at her window, considered and rejected a change or two. Finally, she pronounced...
Senator Taft's slick political devotees delivered a solid knee to the groin of the Republican Party this week, both figuratively and geographically. When the GOP's strongest appeal is based on charges of dishonesty and corruption in the Democratic administration, the bare-faced theft-of thirty-eight convention delegates is well calculated to deprive this campaign issue of much of its force...
...dawn next morning a rescue party of experienced climbers set off up the mountain. It was mid-afternoon when they came back, pulling a lifeless, blanket-covered form on a toboggan. The vicar came out to meet them. Head bare, his overcoat collar turned up around his neck, he read from a prayer book: "Into thy hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend the soul of thy servant, now departed from the body . . ." Then he bent over the toboggan and wept...