Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area of the old Confederacy embraces 55 million people. It sprawls from the porticoed mansions along the James River to the bare Martian surfaces of the Permian basin. It includes the clear alpine valleys of the Blue Ridge and the subtropical swamps of south Georgia. It boasts the 18th century architecture of Charleston, S.C., and the climbing glass silos by John Portman in Atlanta. Its exports include cotton and tobacco to the North, politicians to Washington, novelists to the world and rockets to outer space...
...redneck in him so that they do not see him as a total alien. For all his sophistication, he has never quite shaken his discomfort in posh surroundings. In the Governor's mansion in Atlanta, visitors were often surprised to find him padding around the elegant halls in bare feet...
...mylar, and hang regular wreaths from the strings of bare lightbulbs that were left. Some people said the mylar also interfered with radios in fire trucks and ambulances...
...fact the town where the author-narrator of An Beal Bocht, O'Coonassa, was born and lived, does stand for all the Gaeltacht of West Ireland that O'Coonassa can see from his "small, lime-white and unhealthy house situated in the corner of the glen": from the bare Rosses and Tory Iland "like a great ship where the sky dips into the sea"-visible out the right hand window-to Connemara and Aranmore, seen out the door, to the left-hand view of the Great Blasket "forbidding as an otherworldly eel, lying languidly on the wavetops". O'Nolan...
...Saint Laurent is now working on a book for several hours a day. As prolific a writer as he is a designer, he expects to have the first volume ready for publication next year. It is not an autobiography, he insists, adding in the same breath, "I lay myself bare." Publishers are pounding on his door, even on the beaten brass portals of his Saharan retreat. They should not be disappointed: Saint Laurent is articulate, well read and capable of turning a phrase as neatly as a hem. For example: "Over the years I've learned that what...