Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Just as the remarkably accurate polls had predicted, the outcome hinged on the swing of a few hundred thousand votes in the narrow, shifting center of France's sharply polarized political spectrum. Giscard won possession of the Elysée Palace for the next seven years with a bare 50.8% majority, or some 423,000 votes.* A small swing to the left might easily have made Mitterrand the winner, and given France its first left-wing government since Leon Blum's Popular Front of the 1930s...
...attend an alternative school like the one in Pasadena [May 6]. Mine is the first of its kind in this area. Even though the school board voted to let us continue through next year, there are still those who cry for blood. Things like cursing, bare feet in class and smoking are not, in my opinion, substantial reasons for shutting down a school that has eliminated the teacher-student barrier and has helped many of us find ourselves and learn to reach others. Alternative schools may still be experimental, but we deserve a trial before we are condemned...
...campaign laid bare deep divisions within French society-divisions that would surely trouble whomever the voters choose to succeed the late Georges Pompidou. A victory by Mitterrand would bring to power the first left-wing coalition government in France since Leon Blum's Popular Front in the turbulent late 1930s. A Mitterrand regime would also include the first Communists in any major Western European Cabinet since the cold war began-a fact that might legitimize the idea of Communists sharing power in other Western European countries, notably Italy...
When Bonjour Tristesse appeared in 1954, Françoise Sagan became a 19-year-old member of le tout Paris and an instant international celebrity. The world soon learned that she drank a lot of Scotch, loved to play chemin defer and drive Jaguars in her bare feet. The characters in her subsequent books, among them such bestsellers as Aimez-Vous Brahms? and A Certain Smile, tended to be beautiful, languid, bent on self-destruction. They were often driven by pangs of ennui, whose meaning in French implies more cosmic pain than its English translation ("boredom") can possibly convey...
Cornell held on to win by a bare second in the end, only the last ten strokes holding off Harvard. Another 100 meters and the race would have had a different ending...