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Word: baring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose it for his summer retreat. As F.D.R.'s son Elliott Roosevelt recalled, the camp at that time "looked more like a Marine training camp made up of rough pine cabins, but it suited Father down to the ground?metal bed, bathroom door that refused to shut tight, bare walls ornamented only with some of his favorite cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Camp David: A Palatial Retreat | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...skit. This sequence reveals the fundamental problem with the movie at the very outset. The group's first full-length motion picture, And Now For Something Completely Different, included this skit, complete with props and the suitable atmosphere of a pet shop. Seeing this skit performed again on the bare stage of a London auditorium leaves you flat; watching a grown man repeatedly slam a stuffed parrot against a desk to prove its deceased state ceases to be funny after a while. The same can be said for the movie's closing sequence, featuring the transvestite lumberjack number...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Beating a Dead Parrot | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

...AMERICAN FRIENDS Service Committee recently petitioned Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to abolish the "blue room" isolation cells at Walpole State Prison. These bare concrete cells lack mattresses, toilet fixtures and adequate light and ventilation. The Department of Correction claims the cells are only used to confine suicidal or violent prisoners for short periods of time. Even if the department is telling the truth, it seems cruel and inhumane to confine suicidal prisoners in such a depressing environment. But members of the Friends Committee who have talked with prisoners in the blue rooms claim that the Department of Correction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop Walpole's Blue Rooms | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

Island Attorney General Jack Corrin has promised that future birchings would be laid on "over ordinary cloth trousers" rather than traditional bare buttocks. The whipping has always been limited to twelve strokes on male youths aged 14 to 20. And, claimed Corrin, it has noticeably helped in keeping the crime rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

Part of August's act, lead singer of the Boo Hoo Band, includes sexually molesting an inflatable doll while wrapped in Saran Wrap, plunging a dagger into occupied tables in the club audience, and pouring hot wax on his bare chest...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: Riding High on the New Wave | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

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