Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile mark, it was Navy, Cornell and Washington, with a bare length separating the first from the third shell. Half a mile from the finish, Washington made its bid. Pouring on the power, the Huskies sprinted past Cornell and began to crowd Navy. But Navy was ready. Upping stroke to 39, Navy met the challenge, then crushed it and slowly pulled away...
...Divisions landed at Aitape, Tanahmerah and Humboldt Bays. Their goal: three first-rate airstrips at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. Since the Japs had conveniently parked 340 planes, wingtip to wingtip, to be destroyed days before, mainly by General Kenney's Fifth Air Force, there was no air resistance. Bare of fighting forces, since the local Japanese commander expected to be attacked at Wewak, Hollandia proved to be a giveaway. Counterattacking Jap forces at Aitape were slaughtered, and MacArthur pushed west to Wakde and Biak...
...like a thousand clean diapers a day." The hospital operates on a meager budget of $6,000 a year, and the great need, says Dr. Crane, is toys. Toys of any kind-old, fancy or plain -for the youngsters who have seen so little color and happiness in the bare hills of southwest Korea...
Worried about the establishment of a new kind of censorship, based on the mayor's interpretation of the riot act, the film studio threatened the mayor with a suit. He had not protested a few weeks earlier when a bare-breasted film called The Is land of Nude Women had been shown in Niort; why did he protest against Caroline? The mayor admitted that he hadn't seen Caroline Chérie himself. He would talk it over with the municipal council. Weighing the risk of civil suit against church displeasure, the council last week tried to satisfy...
Should De Gasperi's four-party coalition win a bare majority, the new electoral-bonus law would automatically give him 65% of the 590 Chamber seats, a comfortable margin. If he did not, would De Gasperi make a deal with the Monarchists to organize a majority, as the Monarchists confidently seemed to expect? At Cagliari, De Gasperi was explicit: he would quit instead. "A government half Republican and half Monarchist," said he, would be "a government without principle, a confused government...