Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florentine artists and students took the protest into the streets and the Italian press, from Communist left to Fascist right, whooped to their support. The climax came when four artists barricaded themselves in the bare cell atop Florence's 280-ft.-tall Tower of Arnulfo, announced that they would not come down until the government surrendered...
...company's whole future. No one knows better than President L. L. ("Tex") Colbert the one inviolate axiom of the auto industry: Grow or die. So far, Chrysler has slowly been weakening. After the poor 1954 model, which dropped Chrysler's share of the market; to a bare 12.9%, a succession of new designs and higher-powered cars in 1955 and 1956 have only won back a 16.5% share of the market. But in 1957, Chrysler will be loaded for bear. Cautiously, Colbert himself says only that "our sales targets have been projected on the basis...
Narrow as it is, the Eisenhower margin in twelve polls sponsored by the CRIMSON represents the tenth Republican victory since the turn of the century. In 1912 Woodrow Wilson won against a combined field of Theodore Roosevelt '80 cluding Radcliffe--by a bare majority. and William Howard Taft, and in 1952 Stevenson carried the University...
...foreign ministers scattered to their capitals. But the issue stayed on the U.N.'s agenda, and Secretary-General Hammarskjold went right to work on arrangements for further negotiations to put real meat on the bare bones of principle. The agreement was too vague to promise solid chance of a settlement, and in Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser cast fog on the most important of the six principles by asking: "What does Mr. Dulles mean by 'insulating the canal from politics?' The canal still runs through Egypt." The week's events, however, could be counted a broad step...
...without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived after all, without knowing." As a craftsman, Beckett tries to convey the chaotic by means of the incoherent, and fails. He possesses fierce intellectual honesty, and his prose has a bare, involuted rhythm that is almost hypnotic. Yet, in the end, his derelict's vision of humanity is that of the prideful or fearful castaway who reduces the meaning of all life to the cramped island of self...