Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flimsy, French-designed evening wrap she turned out a wrap in tweed. She went skiing, got cold ears, did a wool-jersey hood. After lugging a trunk and five suitcases around Europe, she decided to save space by making dresses in parts, switching the pieces around for variety-a bare top and covered-up top, for example, to be worn alternately with shorts, slacks or short or long skirts. That was one of the fashion world's first important experiments with "separates," now a mainstay of American sportswear design...
...rejection of the defense's moves to dismiss, Aldrich did not rule out future constitutional disputes or discussions of the committee authority by which Furry and Kamin were questioned. Aldrich said, however, that, since the actual testimony was not before him, he could not judge on "a framework as bare as a motion to dismiss...
...Christo," is an example of iron and steel pieces used to decorate the bare walls of Spanish homes. The armor and mustache of the "Christo" unmistakably belong to the cabellero de trista figura. When people remark that No. 14, "Horse Head," looks like Rocinante, Gusils reportedly denies he had Don Quixotc's hack in mind. It seems less likely that he was unaware that he was putting Don Quixote on the cross in this "Christo...
...Chinese air force (two wings of F-84 Thunderjets and the beginnings of a wing of F-86 Sabre jets) is equipped to the bare level of a minimum defense. Its new commander, General "Tiger" Wang, is rated one of China's best military men. It has been held down, and is still being held down, by the U.S. decision that the Nationalists should not have any offensive capability of their own. This has applied even to fuel and ammunition supply. The small Nationalist navy (corvettes, destroyer escorts, LSTs) is adequate for blockade purposes, but would be negligible...
...thankfully put it in his pocket and paddled away. But joy soon changed to anxiety. For some of the miners who saw the stone said it was a rare gem worth $600,000 or more, but others scoffed that it was only an industrial diamond worth a bare $4,000. Afraid to test his luck, Agustín kept his big stone for two agonizing months. Word of the find spread. Newspapers debated names for a gem destined to rank with the Cullinan and the Hope; they settled on the Evangelist...