Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient, a 40-year-old businessman, had rheumatic heart disease. The condition called for one of the most radical and dangerous feats of modern surgery. In an operating room at Manhattan's New York Hospital, a team of surgeons laid the ailing heart bare. While it was being repaired, the patient required transfusion of no fewer than 23 pints of blood. After nearly three weeks, he seemed to be recovering. But then, mysteriously, his temperature shot up to almost 105° F. Tests showed him to be infected by Plasmodium jalciparum, the bug that causes malignant malaria...
Cone to Crazy Quilt. With such castoffs, Cézanne did the spadework for cubism. He laid the landscape bare to its essential structure, yet cloaked it in a crazy quilt of color like a Jack Frost with spring fever. Unlike his contemporary impressionists, he wanted to show the unchanging longitude and latitude of the earth rather than the fleeting snapshot of the instant. But he left to the later cubists the task of actually depicting the geometry of "the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" of his famous dictum on the elements...
Since light in watercolors comes from the bare whiteness of paper, Cézanne progressively left more and more blank white space. After 1885, his watercolors began influencing his oils: patches of canvas showed through watery thin layers of bright paint. Cézanne's work became like unfinished jigsaw puzzles...
...bare, spare autos of postwar Europe, which sparked the American revolution in favor of the compact car, are growing big for their boots, as the British might say. Citroën and Renault, Fiat and Hillman, BMW and the Japanese Datsun are adding new inches, new horsepower, and new luxury of interior appointment and exterior trim. Even the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL is tarted up with the same kind of speed-line chrome trim that is the one jarring note on the beautiful, continental-style new Buick Riviera...
...concentrates his public appearances in Massachusetts-every major parade on St. Patrick's day and so on. He actively works for the relief of the fishing industry through capital construction grants and research vessels, and for textile and shoe manufacturers hit by imports. His office, unlike the generally bare offices of the other freshmen, is cluttered with Massachusetts' manufacturers and historical reminders of her past. Missiles, duck decoys, colonial furniture, and photographs all overwhelm the visitor with his intention of doing more for Massachusetts...