Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a policy is not without its perils. Ceauşescu's emphasis on industrialization has produced a phenomenal annual growth rate of nearly 12%, but Bucharest cupboards are bare. Peasants are so wretchedly poor that some villages have no shops and people live by primitive forms of barter. In recent months, there have been increasing reports of unrest and even strikes...
...basement of the Old Senate Office Building, put on do boks (loose-fitting white karate suits) and grunt and kick away. The organizer of the group, North Dakota Senator Milton Young, 75, an honorary black belt, can chop a one-inch board in half with his bare hand. The most advanced student, though, is Democratic Representative James Symington of Missouri, 45, with a second level yellow belt, who admits that he hasn't broken a board yet, adding: "I'm saving that for an audience. There's no point breaking my hand in private." The other...
...diggers found images of many more goddesses. All of them are bare-breasted and several resemble Elamite deities. One figure, seated under a tree and framed by sheaves of wheat, apparently represents the goddess of grain; another, surrounded by beasts and sprouting horns, seems to be the patron of animals. In fact, the presence of so many goddesses suggests that the society was a matriarchy...
There is no way to predict causes automatically from symptoms. Only by laying bare the source of his own symbolic behavior can the neurotic work towards escaping his system and act in accordance with his real needs. He is finally freed from the futile struggle for the love of a parent unable to offer love...
...people come to performances by the Harvard Concert Band? Thursday's concert-the band's sole concert this year-included works by Stravinsky and Copland and a world premiere, yet Sanders Theater seemed cavernous and bare because of the lack of the size of the crowd. Perhaps people expect only to hear Sousa marches and Harvard songs at a band concert. After all, that's what they hear at football games, where world premieres are rare indeed...