Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discothèque, set amid glittering car dealerships, fast-food joints and furniture shops full of Oriental rugs and Naugahyde "suites" on Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard. Inside, a hand-printed sign exhorts visitors: PLEASE, PLEASE. NO HATS OR HEADGEAR. NO MOTORCYCLE JACKETS, NO T SHIRTS, NO BARE FEET...
Hsinching has a population of 21,626; the peasants privately own and cultivate 8% of the land. The commune has a busy, fair-sized hospital staffed by 30 nurses and 40 paramedics, "barefoot" doctors: its bare-toothed dentist boasts that every last piece of equipment was made in Shanghai...
Whoever rules Cambodia in the foreseeable future will reign over a devastated land. According to refugees who have escaped into Thailand, the once lush province of Battambang in Western Cambodia is bare of all fruit and bereft of most of its people. In eerily deserted villages, papaya trees stand like bean poles, their fruit, then their leaves, having been torn off by starving peasants. According to the British Foreign Office study, since 1975 an estimated 2 million Cambodians have died of starvation and disease as a result of a campaign to drive city dwellers into the countryside, where there...
...third and innermost chamber, the sanctuary where only priests and an occasional petitioner entered, is bare except for a stela representing the two brothers with Osiris and Isis. A concealed chamber behind it may have contained the embalmed bodies of the brothers or, as some suggest, may have been used by a hidden priest to make oracular pronouncements to impress the faithful. But few of them would ever have heard him. For unlike a Christian church, the Egyptian temple was not designed for worshipers to gather to pray. Rather, it was a house built for the god himself...
While the bare bones of the bill are unattractive, some important features added by a House-Senate conference committe this summer make it even more unsavory. The conference shifted the burdens of cost to weigh more heavily on residential users rather than on industry, raised incremental price levels for old gas which is already flowing, and put stringent limits on the amount of gas which can be allocated to home owners in an emergency shortage. none of these measures will help Americans to stop using oil or save energy; all of them were apparently inserted to placate feisty legislators from...