Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting was the Oval Office, where Carter sat in a pale orange wingback chair, facing two old-fashioned stand-up microphones and a television screen showing the names of his invisible inquisitors. Behind him, the presidential desk was bare, save for a few mementos and Harry Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE plaque...
...weaknesses-can be found in A Place to Come To, his tenth novel. At 72 the author retains his passion for the act of fiction and his faith that the English language can still make exciting sense of the world. Yet a recitation of the novel's bare bones may give the reader the impression that he has seen this book many times before. Jed Tewksbury is a poor white boy from Dugton, Ala. His daddy is the dashing county drunk who falls down and kills himself " while urinating on his mule. Jed's mother is the pone...
This kind of owl is common to the eastern United States in backwoods, swampy areas, but sometimes hangs out in cities and towns during the winter, because of its conspicious bulk against a bare tree...
...With the bare baryon...
Brass Plaque. Kissinger's own office is roomy but still bare. The only decoration-a farewell gift from the State Department's Policy Planning Staff-is a poster of a glowering orangutan, captioned: IF I WANT YOUR OPINION, I'LL BEAT IT OUT OF YOU. At the end of a small conference table is Kissinger's brown leather Cabinet chair with a brass plaque affixed to the back that reads...