Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first crop, probably grain. For years to come, he hopes for very little-no telephone, no paved road, no nearby school, nothing much but a chance to make a living on his own land. "We'll plant trees," he told Elizabeth as they stared across the bare, baking soil they had won. "If you like, we'll plant some roses...
...Senate, where Agriculture Committee Chairman George Aiken had been predicting "a bare majority" for the Benson program, the House vote changed the odds. Said Vermont's Aiken: "We'll get an adequate majority...
...French, having jealously kept the Indo-China war to themselves for seven years, had starved it, botched it. come close to losing it, and were heartily sick of it. They wanted out. The French Assembly, with exquisite subtlety had given its government a bare two vote majority, enough to make a peace but not to fight...
Gaudy Age. Not all U.S. archaeologists are sure that the ship or ships will prove to be loaded with all these fascinating things. Little is known, 'they say, about the Fourth Dynasty, of which Cheops was the second Pharoah. The ship may be bare soul-transportation, not richly freighted with treasure. Even so, it will tell a great deal about an ancient and gaudy...
...year. Illinois, with strict laws against bootlegging, lost 125 in 1953. In Washington recently, 70 have gone under; in Oklahoma, 150; in Kansas, 78; on New York's suburban Long Island, 20. Many others are operating in the red, and overall first-quarter profits are down to a bare .8%, v. 4.3% last year. Said one disgusted Los Angeles dealer: "You can put your money in a savings account and get more than that...