Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned and sprinted precariously along 100 yards of bare girders to the nearest ladder, scrambled down it to the street, dived through the traffic stream and raced 100 yards back to the apartment building. He was below the window just as the boy-Francis Xavier Lamadrid-lost his balance and came sailing down. Sarno braced himself. Frightened women spectators screamed. But seconds later, with the force of his fall broken, the child was safe in Sarno's brawny arms. Astounded passersby, screened from the catch by a billboard, assumed that Sarno had caught...
...editorial was not in keeping with the CRIMSON-Summer School precedent. This difference should have remained one between the two involved parties; instead it suddenly exploded into an alleged attack on "freedom of the press." A former CRIMSON editor, working for the Boston Globe, got the story, printed the bare facts minus the background, and soon had it buzzing across the nation's wire services. Immediately, Campbell and William Yandell Elliott, Director of the Summer School, were opening virulent letters from alumni and faculty denouncing them for underhanded censorship. One of them came from Law Professor Zechariah Chafee...
Youngsters attending the one-room schoolhouse at Perry Siding, B.C., saw a strange sight as they trooped out of class for their lunch recess one day last week. Ranged outside the school was a crowd of 75 buff-bare men and women, members of the unruly Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect,* staging one of their nude protest parades...
...cotton dress came into Neiman's for a complete outfitting on her first visit to Dallas. In a few hours, she spent $10,000 of her father's new oil wealth. The last thing Neiman's sold her was a pair of shoes for her bare feet...
...numbers that first made her famous in the U.S. and Europe in 1906-08. In The Incense, she was an Indian woman carrying a tray of smoking incense; Miss Ruth's figure was no longer as willowy as it was in Theodore Roosevelt's Administration, but her bare arms undulated with astonishing grace and control. In The Cobras, she was a fakir. As the cobras, represented by Miss Ruth's arms, slithered over her head and body, she wore an impudent expression that told her audience that neither she nor the fakir took the cobras very seriously...