Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bare necks and arms will provide "double exposure" this season. Not only sleeveless, but backless dresses will be seen at the many Ivy-league spring weekend parties. Tiny matching boleros accompany most of the sunback outfits to make them more adaptable and practical...
...Philippine army patrol scattered a small party of Huk guerrillas. Over the barking rifles a woman's voice cried: "I surrender! I am Celia Mariano, wife of William Pomeroy." Out of the bushes came a frightened, tired woman, long, raven-black hair falling over her bruised face, her bare feet bleeding. When the Philippine army captured her husband, U.S.-born Huk Leader William Pomeroy (TIME, April 21), she had leaped out of a window and fled into the mountains with two Huk women and two male Huk bodyguards...
Caroline never lacks for playmates. When a "young giant" of a stagecoach driver hides her in a hayloft, she senses that he is "in no mood for preliminaries." Moments later, "a thousand tiny spears of hay [bite] into her bare thighs." At novel's end, sans husband or other encumbering alliances, Caroline cheats the guillotine by dressing up in a sailor suit and reporting for duty on a French frigate bound for America...
Still another measure has been taken to preclude possible theft or loss of the books. The bottom shelves of the "Inferno" stacks are now completely bare. According to Haynes, "John Shea (superintendent of the stacks in Widener) and myself often used to find the aisles of the 'Inferno' strewn with books." There is a small space between the bottom of the stacks and the floor, and it seems that students studying on the fifth level directly below the Cage were inclined to reach up through this crevice, attempting to snare some erotic literature...
...Twin," and "The Constant Sinner." Sundry types of virgins are considered, including "13 Carat Virgin," "Professional Virgin," and "Broadway Virgin." The stacks are studded with gaudily colored volumes which sport such appealing names as "Roue the 4th." "No Bed of Her Own," "Naked Glory," "Bare Living," and "Bedroom Eyes...