Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throughout the rest of Red China. The national hero was Yang Seh-mun, 16, of Yunnan. He had killed 20,000 sparrows by sneaking around during the day locating nesting trees. At night, China Youth proudly reported, he then climbed trees and strangled whole families of sparrows with his bare hands...
...decision with a heartfelt sigh of relief. When he finished his acceptance speech, they tumbled into the streets with the same joy they showed when Rojas toppled. Waving handkerchiefs, flags and pictures of Lleras, they wove in and out among horn-honking cars and buses.They stripped palm trees bare, carried the heavy fronds aloft in the ancient symbol of rejoicing. Students turned their coats inside out, joined hands and snake-danced to the chants of "Lleras! Lleras! Lleras...
...hardly reasonable or fair for the University to enforce rules that overcrowd streets a few blocks away and leave nearby streets bare at night. A much more sensible solution, and one that seems to have worked well in the brief period it was tried here, was the alternate-side plan set up by the City Council. This temporary plan is still in operation in the rest of the city, and will probably be extended by the Council until...
...nylon fur from another. They loaded up on lingerie and stockings and perfumes-for the girls back home; for themselves, they bought shirts, shorts and ties-in any color, curiously, except red. A surprising haul was made by Wellington's druggists, for the Red sailors swept the shelves bare of laxatives, and even bought up patent medicine that had been gathering dust for years. At week's end the Russians went back to their ships laden like housewives returning from a bargain sale, and the fleet steamed out, headed for Odessa and home...
Morality Play. Not that Fielding is a prude: "For the most rugged, down-to-bare-facts night life on the continent of Europe-at decent prices and under non-clip conditions, too-Hamburg wins the diamond-studded G-string by 6 bumps and 24 grinds." It is not raw flesh but raw deals that make Fielding's blood boil: "Of all the groups of surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians we've met in our travels, the Venetian gondoliers take our personal booby prize." Fielding's Guide is fun because he writes a kind of frivolous morality play...