Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel confident that we'll get the bare minimum that will get us off the ground and that we can build from there...
...generally speaking, the imponderable will of God was easier to predict than the course of human affairs. The first rule of forecasting should be that the unforeseen keeps making the future unforeseeable. In the 1890s it was widely predicted that the U.S. would be bare of trees by the 1920s -- they would all have been chopped down to provide wood for heating and cooking. Along came oil burners and the gas stove, saving the trees to be menaced instead by acid rain...
...enabled him to call up his distant past. Like all spacers, Captain Singh belonged to the "Bald Is Beautiful" school, if only because wigs were a nuisance in zero gravity. The social historians were still staggered by the fact that one invention, the portable "Brainman," could make bare heads the norm within a single decade. Not even quick-change skin coloring, or the lens- corrective laser shaping which had abolished eyeglasses, had made such an impact upon style and fashion...
...mouth. And then, under the glare of a red light, he stripped off his clothes, trying to erase the disgust and guilt instilled in him as a child. However, this act was slightly spoiled by our haunting certainly that he might not have been so ready to bare his childhood "shame" if he had not had such a slender, youthful, muscular body to take pride...
...certainly times when Miller's monologue is a little too full of slick lines: when he asks God rhetorically why he has been spared death from AIDS while so many of his friends have died, or when he, as the spokesman for all gay men, urges them to "bare our souls and our buttholes." But his vision of life and love is enduring: lovers are "naked in the sight of each other, who are the only ones who matter," or, more bluntly: "We can't let these right-wing fuckheads tell us how to fuck...