Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-five steps below Massachusetts Avenue is a world where wind, sun, and week-end rain never penetrate. Row on row of bare bulbs cast their glare on shadowy caverns. The only moisture to reach the tile and litter clings loosely to the windows and roofs of swaying trolley cars...
...GERMAN OFFICER, by Serge Groussard (218 pp.; Putnam; $3), draws a bone-bare portrait of the classic Wehrmacht officer in defeat. Promising young French Novelist Groussard follows a crippled colonel as he scrabbles among the ruins for food, stonily defends his wartime acts, and keeps his chilling faith in Holy Germany...
...Davis. Her interpretation of an actress who cannot quite stop acting when she is off stage exposes the sadness and emptiness of a woman who can only make believe. It is almost frightening to watch the precision with which Bette Davis disassembled the mechanism of her character and lays bare the instincts of a child...
Beginning in Darkness. Just a few days before Joe left for Kansas City to attend the annual Future Farmers' convention, the Chromaster clock sounded its alarm at 4:30 a.m. in his bedroom at home. Shocked to wakefulness after eight hours of sleep, Joe swung out his bare feet and reached for the mound of khaki clothes on the linoleum floor. The shirt, clammy from three days' accumulated sweat, clung dankly to him. The pants, crusted with dirt and splotched with tractor grease, slipped on over the cotton print shorts in which he had slept. The three-hook...
Nimbly crossing a stream on a log worn smooth by countless bare feet, a mass of moving color in their freshly laundered sarongs, they gathered before the thatched home of the village lurah (leader) to hear an election official explain the proceedings. At least half of them were women, often with naked, suckling babies. "Vote freely," said the official. "Whoever buys or sells votes will be prosecuted ... Do you understand?" The crowd murmured...