Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LUNCH that the important are most easily seen. In the bare old dining room on the fourth floor of the Metropolitan Club, with its memories of mustaches and Madeira wine and terrapin Maryland, the unleisurely men of today take only a few minutes off to talk personalities over a hurried meal of Ry-Krisp and iceberg lettuce. There are newsworthy faces at every table. A man speeds up the conversation with his lunch eon partner to get a chance to exchange a word with someone more important who's just shoving back his chair...
...clothes off and tried to wiggle, feet first, out the hole at the bottom of the tree. He got stuck again, legs out, body in. Jostling each other in delight, his dogs began licking his bare toes. He ordered them to go for help. They licked harder. He yelled. Nothing happened. Finally, darkness fell. He told himself: "Roger, you've made your last mistake...
...Immediate Ceasing." The Eighth Army sat on the story of Dodd's kidnaping for two days, then released the bare facts. Brigadier General Charles F. Colson was rushed to the island to take command. At Communist request and on Colson's orders, a telephone was passed through the barbed wire of Compound 76 and connected to a sentry box at the gate. Over this line General Dodd sent frequent bulletins on his treatment and on his parleys with his captors. He said they were treating him fine. U.S.-cooked meals were sent...
Gleefully using such devices wherever possible, and speeding along in a clear, scholarly style, Gamow develops the universe from a primordial, exploding "something" to the currently popular, expanding, gravitationally unstable dust cloud. Then follows the accepted course through local condensations to the bare, rocky planets circling--about their central suns, and thence, by devious organic evolution, to mankind...
...long versus short controversy extends to blouses and shirts, too. Long waisted middy tops combine perfectly with brief shorts, but so do bare midriff halters. It's just a matter of preference and suitability for the individual figure...