Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening that the Watergate grand jury handed up its March 1 indictment, CBS Correspondent Fred Graham was on camera discussing the charges. Merely to summarize the bare facts of the complex story within TV's time limitations would have been an accomplishment. But Graham was able to add some telling insights. Having digested the 50-page indictment, he observed that "it wasn't quite classical." Although "sometimes conspiracy cases involve the kitchen-sink approach," this time, he noted, it was different. Instead of throwing in many charges against each defendant in the hope that one or more would...
...females ran and rode bi cycles round the University of South Carolina student center. In New York City, some 40 Columbia University males cavorted in the buff. Stopping at nearby Barnard College dormitories, the Columbia youths tried to drum up some female support but were joined by only one bare coed. They did better the next night...
...Portland Press Herald chided streakers for wearing shoes during one of the mildest Maine winters on record. "We are not opposed to streaking provided it is correctly undertaken and executed with some grace," the paper editorialized. "If you streak, have the common decency to do it in your bare feet...
...streaked their high school as the student body rose for the morning national anthem. An adult male streaker whipped up and down the aisles of a Pan American jumbo jet en route from London to New York. Senior Citizen Virgil Cleves, 67, was arrested in Lima, Ohio, for a bare stroll in the public square with equally bare Wanda Gray, 46. He was asking equal time for "snailing," he said, since he was too old to streak. In London's House of Commons, the danger of this latest U.S. aberration's infecting other countries was excoriated...
...Evans and MacGraw approached Producer David Merrick. "Bob said to me," recounts Merrick, " 1 want to do this picture for Ali, and I think you have the class to do it properly. And, of course,' he added, 'you are a friend of Scottie's.' " Bare Bones. Evans had hoped to buy the rights for $130,000, but by the time Merrick got to Mrs. Smith there was a sudden spate of competitive bidders, including Robert Redford and Producer Ray Stark. It took Merrick a year and a half to close the deal for $350,000 plus...