Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metcalf's solutions to the problem of growth have been diverse, but to a large degree successful. Today, the staff is under paid, the catalogues are inadequate, reader service has been cut to the bare minimum, and acquisition funds are not sufficient to keep many collections up to date, but the scholar can obtain a larger percentage of the world's books than he did when Metcalf arrived...
...greatly fear one thing. If men will not clothe the bare framework of science with the warm garments of true humanism, they will end up by making machines their god and mathematics their only dogma. The rising paganism of the western world will make our civilization cold as interstellar spaces, ruthless as the atoms which smash each other...
From behind a nearby chicken coop, two hand grenades arched through the night air, down among the circling dancers. The explosions toppled dancers like ninepins; 22 lay groaning and bloody on the bare earth. One 22-year-old girl was dead. The survivors dragged the wounded to shelter in the house amidst a hail of Sten gunfire. In the darkness the two attackers slipped off toward Egyptian-held Gaza, 14 miles away...
...theatre manager was standing in the middle of the bare stage; suddenly he pointed to something under the arm of one of the reporters. "Is that a camera?" he asked in a frightened voice. The reporter was startled. He brought up his arm and showed his clipboard. The manager signed with relief. "I'm sorry, but the way you were holding it, it looked like a camera. And the stage hands don't allow any cameras backstage. If they caught you with one here I could lost...
...following year Four Plays for a Bare Stage successfully appeared, proving that space and scenery are not necessary. Rockwell Film Studios provided the bare stage. But if the Poets found that elaborate staging could be dispensed with, they also agreed that professional direction could not. Edward Thommen was hired by the ever-growing bank account as Managing Director. He formed the center for a core of theater professionals which now includes Miss Huntington, designer William Hunt, and poet-president Lyon Phelps...