Word: barke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...served as the picture books and newsreels of feudal Japan. To document Perry's arrival, and satisfy their feudal masters' incorrigible curiosity, Japanese artists swarmed aboard Perry's six black ships, sketching virtually everything in sight with swift brush strokes on mulberry-bark paper. Their captions are often as eerily strange as their pictures, which confirmed the Japanese notion that all Westerners had enormous noses and were covered with hair. Cleanshaven Commodore Perry is shown as a slant-eyed demon, heavily mustached and bearded, with eyebrows as thick as bagels...
When Joseph Stalin was running things, the Kremlin had only to bark a command and heels clicked throughout the Communist world. Now the heels are more likely to drag. Nowhere was the fraying discipline of once-monolithic world Communism more clearly illustrated last week than in a Pravda editorial that all Communists had been awaiting for months...
While round us bark...
...support of full body weight by the ears is not recommended for the care and handling of dogs, children, or any mammal, even if you want to "let them bark." I am shocked and dismayed. GILBERT O. SEW ALL, D.D.S. Secretary German Wirehaired Pointer Club
...President gave the White House beagles, Him and Her, some candy-coated vitamin pills, then lifted the dogs up onto their haunches by pulling their ears and noted their yapping with apparent pleasure. "It's good for them," he said. "It does them good to let them bark." Assembled in the garden was a 13-man task force organized to promote increased foreign investment in the U.S. Neither they nor the President thought much about the incident...