Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just outside, an Arab barber named Aouni leafs through an Egyptian picture magazine while he waits in his shabby shop for a late customer. From the bare-walled coffee shop comes the click of dice. An aged street vendor watches for hungry pilgrims with his roasted peanuts, and the Moslem proprietor of the souvenir shop next door offers a special on the miniature crowns of thorns made by Arab refugees. The Holy Week price: $1. At the barricaded Jaffa Gate, a pair of Arab Legion sentries stuff hands in pockets against the chill, and a radio blares a newscast...
...Metropolitan Opera got a new Carmen last week. She serpentined onstage in a dress of bare-shouldered abandon, and the rose in her hand glowed like the apple of Eden. She tilted her ink-black mane at a confident angle and poured out in seductive French: "When I'll give you my love? I'm sure I couldn't say; perhaps not at all-tomorrow I may." Her big voice had a dark, anthracite sheen, sometimes with more polish than depth, sometimes with not quite enough polish, but always firm and sometimes thrilling. By the time...
While Beer and Goldings discussed what to say, Silverstein wandered around the room, lifting up the rug to see what type of floor it was. He noticed the bare bookshelves...
...make the Danes melancholy, for the dramatic climax would, no doubt, be Marilyn as Ophelia frisking about the lily pads clad in a bikini for a real razzle-dazzle death scene. At this point, the profit-sharing prince would no doubt be moved to make his quietus with a bare bodkin...
...Bare percentage points on top of the National League, John McGraw's Giants had just dropped the first two of a three-game series with the second-place Chicago Cubs, managed by Frank Chance. In the ninth inning of the final game, the score at the Polo Grounds was tied, 1-1. There were two outs when the Giants' Outfielder "Moose" McCormick beat out a single. Long-legged Fred Merkle, the Giants' first baseman, sent him to third with another single. Shortstop Al Bridwell lined a clean base hit over the head of the Cubs' Second...