Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery that France's vital military secrets had been systematically betrayed to the Communists was dismaying enough. But Frenchmen had even more reason to be shocked last week as the unfolding story of I'affaire Dides laid bare a picture of political decay that made politicians ready to risk their country's safety and their compatriots' lives over pride of office and reach for power...
...melancholy occasion to be faced with at best bleak resignation. By the time the last French soldiers withdrew, nearly every useful piece of military equipment had been dismantled and carried off. The first Viet Minh officials to arrive protested that their hospital billets had been stripped bare; the French sent back a few light bulbs, but that was all. "The French are good at retreating," said a grimly admiring allied officer...
...days before Communist Vietminh troops marched into Hanoi last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), a company of bare-chested Legionnaires marched into a factory and went to work. They smashed huge holes in the brick walls, hauled out all the machines they could carry and loaded them into waiting trucks. Within hours, the prosperous $15 million Brewery & Cold Storage of Indo-China was a wreck, but much of its equipment was headed south into the French zone. Like many another French business, the Brewery had first hoped to stay in Hanoi after the Geneva truce partitioned the country last July...
...vote of approval came by a bare six votes out of 11 cast. Two cabinet members voiced opinion against the plan, while three others abstained. Five members failed to attend the meeting...
...good old-fashioned sentiments like love and Christmas are so commercialized nowadays that many of the old saws seem rusty, if not wornout. One of these, "The gift without the giver is bare," has been heavily battered again this week, now that the Combined Charities Drive seems to have repudiated it so effectively...