Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conversation (1966), for instance, presents an Amsterdam society doctor, highly intelligent but neurotic and febrile, who is unprovably guilty of murder. In a long series of informal conversations, Van der Valk, in effect, kills the man with kindness and understanding, finally inveigling him into admitting his crime by laying bare the poverty and loneliness of his successful life...
...young, not old, but plenty Irish and plenty seasoned. Odd that he represented in the minds of many of the new people the very bossism they hated; yet he had held the party together for a decade and sometimes, with men like Treasurer Robert Strauss, almost with his bare hands and certainly with bare wallets. Without O'Brien there would have been no reform...
...verge of a nervous breakdown-his third. Among his last public words was an almost poignant lament: "If the Pope would only tell me, 'Boy, you have made a big mess out of this,' I can tell you, I would thank our dear Lord on my bare knees to be rid of this job." Of all possible solutions, that seems the least likely...
...most done with anesthetics that did not entirely eliminate pain; in one case, the usually stoic Freud interrupted his surgeon, Hans Pichler, with the words, "I cannot take any more." In 1926, "a 'typical' year with no major surgical procedures, just the unceasing attempt to achieve a bare minimum of comfort," Schur reports, there were 48 office visits to Pichler, one biopsy, two cauterizations of new lesions, and continual experiments to improve three different prostheses...
...Maloney finally came in with a roundhouse curve that left the astonished batter gaping at a called third strike. Another time, when Bench felt a pitcher was not putting enough steam on the ball, he shocked everyone in the park by arrogantly catching a listless pitch with his bare hand. Thus chastened, the pitcher bore down hard...