Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, the disappointments Negroes have suffered in the past two years are not wholly attributable to the war. An unfortunately large proportion of white America is willing to concede Negroes their bare constitutional rights, but balks at the thought of legislation or personal action which would give this minority de facto equality...
...that the ladies were prettily, if ingenuously, exposed, wearing at most diaphanous veils across the bosom. Seventeenth century ladies, however, were an imperious lot, and had no compunctions about altering their dress to suit themselves. History does not record how many of them actually chose to turn up bare-breasted at the festivities...
...only a stable, non-Communist government but one of the few free elections in Hispaniola's history. Dominicans nicknamed him "El Pato Macho" (the gutsy duck). "He showed up on the palace steps every morning," says Lyndon Johnson with undisguised admiration, "and held that government together with his bare hands...
...been sadly misinformed. The Association for the Fifth Republic -- the confederation of Gaullist parties that has had a firm grip on the Assembly for nearly ten years -- was in trouble. For a number of hours after the polls closed it seemed that the Association would not control even a bare majority. Only the following day when the Corsican vote was recounted, did the Gaullists gain their 244th seat, one more than the total held by all the opposition parties...
...Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Hitting the bar and the police rather than the press, the committee called on all U.S. courts to adopt new rules forbidding police, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judicial employees to make any out-of-court statement going beyond a bare description of the crime and the charges...