Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, when Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration, began to explain more of the truth about the Harvard heating manifesto than Rosovsky cared to bare at Wednesday's press conference, he cut Hall off: "Now Steve, let's not air our dirty laundry in public...
...production's overall atmosphere, neither tragic nor pastoral, settles somewhere in the netherworld of the mundane. A fairly simple set is not quite bare enough to avoid being distractingly eclectic. Nice touches, such as burning torches in the king's chambers and a flower-bedecked arbor in Bohemia, are offset by haphazard positioning of the settings and the action. The climactic resurrection of Hermione is blunted by clumsy staging. Though occasional flute passages are delightful, the music is generally sloppy...
Employees at the Royal York hotel in Toronto will strip the lobby bare, moving couches, chairs, lamps and even rugs to the basement for safekeeping. Liquor stores across Canada plan to stock an extra supply of beer and rye whisky. Toronto police are scheduled to work overtime shifts, and families will cut short outings this Sunday to gather at home. All this in preparation for a football game...
...became downright absurd when the gray metamorphisized, converting into rain, and gave 41,247 disgusted fans the excuse to depart they wanted. The Bowl, which had originally been little more than half full, grew emptier and emptier. By the final gun, the 70,000 blue seats were almost entirely bare...
...Conditions are not nearly as bad for the poor and the underprivileged. I remember in a town north of Yakima when a coal-mine union organizer came in one day. They grabbed him, tied him up and dragged him out of town behind a motorcycle. It was a bare-knuckles town, and that was the law. There's nothing like that any more today. America is much more integrated, integrated in the psychiatric sense, more mature, more tolerant. We face problems with a more adult point of view...