Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pinpoint Breakaway. At 35,000 ft. Pilot Jensen chanted the breakaway signal: 5-4-3-2-1. Then, as the Skyrocket dropped, the B-29 banked sharply to the left. Bridgeman was on his own. With bare hands (no gloves for this critical job), he flicked four switches in quick sequence. Each switch fired a rocket chamber. They made a curious sound-a "bloof" and a "schplunk," as Bridgeman describes it. A trail of dense white vapor streamed out from the tail. Ten seconds after the drop, Bridgeman was speeding faster than sound. He did not even feel this "passing...
...cell in Toledo's Carmelite priory for eight months, where he was taken out once a day to eat crusts and water on the refectory floor, and kneel while the monks tried to change his mind by walking in a circle around him, lashing his bare back with leather whips...
Explained a general: "In each squad you may have -only one man who really wants to fight. You need him there to influence the other men. Under the Ranger program you had that one man volunteering to be a Ranger, which leaves the squad bare of inspiration to fight...
...palm-slim waist as well as the effusive adulation belong to a green-eyed, reddish-haired young woman in the bare shade of 30 named Ava Lavinia Gardner. Movie bigwigs, whose vocabularies are more limited, put their praises in calmer terms than Serior Cabre. But from the Olympian executives in the Bel Air hills to the plebeian pressagents down on Wilshire Boulevard, the consensus is that Ava Gardner may well turn out to be the best thing for Hollywood since the late Jean Harlow...
Washington called Peking's story "a bare-faced lie." Dave Barrett spoke up from Formosa: "I never at any time . . . attempted to assassinate or contrive the assassination of anyone." The real moral of the story is as plain as Mao meant it to be: outsiders are no longer safe in Red China. Riva and Yamaguchi are the first foreigners to be sentenced to death as counterrevolutionaries, while Bishop Martina is the first Catholic clergyman to be sentenced to life in prison. He is fairly big game, as acting representative in Peking for Archbishop Antonio Riberi, papal internuncio for China...