Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hall staffs in their war against Bermuda shorts. When worn no longer than twenty-three inches from the waist and no shorter than two inches above a clean kneecap, even Brooks Brothers will advertise shorts in their store windows. Nor is there any justifiable objection from those who dislike bare legs. Socks, when worn properly, are no more than than three inches below the knee. At best--or at worst--depending on one's sartorial Weltanschauung, five inches of flesh is exposed...
...bare-knuckles policy fight when the Hoover Commission task force on water and power brings out its report next month. Headed by Jones & Laughlin's Admiral Ben Moreell, the task force plans to recommend that the Government either sell off TVA plants to private industry or turn them over to AEC, appropriate no more money for power or reclamation, finance any such projects by selling bonds to the public (without Government guarantee). TVA Democrats are up in arms, accuse the Moreell task force of being "stacked against public power...
...will feel a burning interest in a medieval monk's "musical notation," or even in the 4th century Codex Vaticanus? If there is such value in antiquity, why not transport the Sphinx pebble by pebble (or at least an Egyptian pyramid) and set it up in some suitable bare spot...
...varnish, than they cleaned. Modern practitioners take the bolder course of removing past additions in order to restore pictures to something approximating their original state. Sometimes they scrub with too much enthusiasm, destroying the translucent glazes of a picture surface and reducing it to the artist's bare beginnings. More often, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (TIME, Oct. 4), they succeed in bringing back much of the painting's original bloom and freshness. Their greatest, and rarest, delight lies in discovering new and better pictures beneath the old, as Cellini...
...broke out, the colonel, then 67, was called back to help harden marines. "Come on, now, kill me," he would snarl unarmed, as they brandished their bayonets. "Why," said one recruit flattened by the colonel's jujitsu, "that old geezer knows more ways to kill you with his bare hands than any man alive...