Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bare maple branches hedge in broken circles, stiffened angular and hard, narrowed into junctured birdflight, enamelled with the gloss of previous light rain...
...young and raised them successfully. But in the other two pens, where no single males took charge, social stress was rampant. Some of the males gave the females no rest. Others turned homosexual or hid in corners. The females stopped making proper nests, and their young, born on the bare floor, died and were eaten...
...Soviet agriculture: the nature of the peasant. No incentives yet devised have ever persuaded him to devote to impersonal toil a scintilla of the love and labor he lavishes on the minute patch of land he can still call his own. From privately owned plots, amounting to a bare 3% of all cultivated land in Russia, comes half of all the nation's meat, milk, green vegetables. But the bureaucracy adamantly refuses to expand the private plots...
...hardly the sort of setting or audience usually associated with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. While the orchestra sat in the center of a large gymnasium, the listeners squatted or sprawled on the bare floor. Occasionally they waved their hands in imitation of the conductor, sang along with the music or uninhibitedly ran their fingers across the strings of a cello. They were young children, attending last week's Tiny Tot Concert, an annual series sponsored by Rich's department store in Atlanta. Rich's does not expect the children to be customers for quite a while...
...Latin America's most solid currencies (26.60 soles to the dollar) and a rapidly expanding industry (copper, manufacturing, fishing). The problem is to spread some of the soles around. In the highlands, 6,000,000 Indians still speak the language of their Inca ancestors, earn a bare $15 per family per year; city slum dwellers do little better. But Belaúnde's government has already built 2,200 low-cost housing units in Lima. He has pushed through a new universal-education law that will take a long time to implement, but at least theoretically extends free...