Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saint Ildefonso used to scold me and punish me lots of times. He would sit me on the bare floor and make me eat with the cats of the monastery. These cats were such rascals that they took advantage of my penitence. They drove me mad stealing my choicest morsels. It did no good to chase them away. But I found a way of coping with the beasts in order to enjoy my meals...
...clipper races in, the chum begins to fly. The high-booted fishermen stand precariously in shallow metal scuppers that hang like balconies over the water, and they wield stout poles from which dangle a short line and a large bare hook. The tuna flash up to take the chum, and many get a hook instead. In hook, out fish, in hook, out fish-the work falls quickly into a pounding rhythm that maddens the blood like drums. The deck-holes are filling fast with 20-pounders that flail like thunder as the blood-mist steams above their thousand throes...
...Pinay's right-wing Independents and Peasants gained 2%, but lost 42 seats. The Communists lost nearly 1%, but won 53 new seats, representing almost exactly the seats they lost in 1951 when the center alliances scooped up all Assembly seats in any Department where they achieved a bare majority...
...special committee finally killed it. Reason: doctrinal differences might be inflamed, and the godless, i.e., Russia & Co., might be disgruntled. In fact, Russia had made it clear that it would be disgruntled. A recommendation calling for a minute of silence was the substitute passed by a bare majority out of 15 committee members-Russia and France, among others, abstained from voting; three stayed away from the meeting...
...Sargent later sold the portrait to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum.) In the furor, few seemed to care that Sargent had combined bare flesh and black velvet, starkness and stylishness, in an unforgettable image...