Word: baring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...want to.But I’m more inclined to agree with what the ethicist Peter Lawler has written, that our loss of Puritanism “has exacted a real erotic cost. A genuine 17th-century Puritan man who caught a glimpse of a young woman’s bare ankle might have had difficulty controlling himself. Today’s licentious young men watch virtually naked and perfectly sculpted young women gyrate on MTV and yawn.” Similarly, it makes little difference that one’s lithe legs are gloriously exposed to the thigh, or that...
...backseat with her legs apart to facilitate the delivery, Pellegrini said. While Reed spoke with the police dispatcher, Pellegrini approached the woman in the dark and fumbled to switch on the lights inside the car. The students said they witnessed the woman catching the emerging baby in her bare hands. Pelligrini then took off his sweater to swaddle the infant girl. “She was yelling, ‘Oh my baby girl! Help my baby girl!’...I kept telling her that help is on the way,” he said...
...generic thriller, “Judge & Jury.” Patterson, following in Tom Clancy’s footsteps, threatens to become the Franklin W. Dixon or Gertrude Chandler Warner of this generation. A spate of chick-lit also hit the market and fizzled, lacking creativity or, at the bare minimum, controversy...
...adult entertainment.” Residents of the hall initially voted in favor of the “SEX-C Fund”—Simmons Entertainment Executive Committee—last spring, and an appeal to overturn the decision was voted down last week by a bare majority. The creation of the fund has excited some students and aroused anger in others. Agustya R. Mehta, a junior at MIT and the Simmons Hall officer who brought forward last week’s appeal, is continuing to protest the fund. Mehta is taking his appeal to the hall?...
...trading the Americans for the Russians," he said, "I'd have stuck with the Americans." When his secret life came up, he said, "I always tried to tell you the truth." I believed him. Indeed, I recall any number of times - especially during the period when Henry Kissinger was bare-knuckling South Vietnam into accepting his "peace-is-at-hand" terms - when An saved us from reporting things that weren't true...