Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past 13 years. He shares his room with three others and keeps his stolen food in a night table. The door is always locked, and one of the boys always stays inside to make sure the purloined food is not taken by someone else. The room is bare but for two beds, the night table and three blankets. One of the windows is shattered and the other held together by tape. Alen calls himself Deutschemark "because that is all I believe in," he says. "I will tell you more for Marlboro cigarettes...
...picking and choosing which parts of a 20 year career to share with the reader, Brook is more willing to dwell on the details of town politics, printing equipment and circulation figures than he is ready to bare the details of his private thoughts, his family life, his divorce and remarriage...
...facing down the threat of totalitarianism, democratic societies have grown used to the idea that the bare mechanism of choosing leaders is sufficient for democracy. In the 19th century, philosophers constantly argued and debated what the rights and ideals of democracy might be. John Stuart Mill, a passionate libertarian, was convinced that visions of freedom and happiness must be constantly discussed, altered and changed as societies change, lest they fall into "the deep slumber of a decided opinion." In our time, the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin has pointed out, "Men do not live < only by fighting evils. They live...
...space program must be trimmed of its flashy, exorbitant novelties and left only with affordable, bare-bones science. Perhaps we don't really need a large, expensive, decade-late space station...
...inhibitions imposed on her at home. In 1970 she warmed the frost between the U.S. and Peru when she traveled to towns destroyed by earthquakes, delivering aid and personal comfort to survivors. In West Africa in 1972 she was cheered by huge throngs, exotic tribal kings and bare-breasted dancers. At home, in the protest years, she met with demonstrators in Los Angeles' Watts ghetto and heard out hostile students on campuses...