Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple, tedious and poor, he was greeted with a traditional welcoming ceremony called the bedara, offered a wine to appease the spirits he brought with him, and a brass bracelet to signify friendship. Schecter cabled home: "I suppose it's work, but camping in a longhouse with bare-breasted girls who gently tip cups of sweet rice wine to your lips is more like an ex-New York writer's idea of nirvana...
...recently-molted cockroach sports a shiny new chitin shell, but he's still an ugly bug. The tower of education's "massive walls and large windowless areas" shone like alabaster in the reproduction. In fact they will be the familiar mottled red, broken most months by bare, scraggly Ivy vines. Before many years in the local air, the red will lose its luster, the mortar will turn dull grey...
...Early Floating"--an "exploration in the pure fact of movement," choreographed in silence--was merely a study and an exercise. As someone has so clearly said of nouelle vague films, why is it that these things are never too short? The patterns of bone and muscle in the dancers' bare legs were the most interesting part of the composition. When this is all that holds one's attention, what one is watching may be "exploration," but it is not dance...
...tops for the Crimson and, along with Joe Barton's control of midfield face-offs, were the only Crimson bright spots in a very dismal afternoon. The Terps kept goalie Gill Leaf occupied in the varsity nets most of the game and limited Harvard's offensive excursions to a bare minimum...
When 40 years of liquor rationing* ended in 1955, most Swedes laid in ample reserve stocks, vowing never to be caught short again. But there they were, with cupboards bare last week, amidst the direst shortage since the height of government controls...