Word: shorn
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...moving, but the TV version is cluttered with cliches and civics lessons. The best TV show about the American involvement in Asia remains CBS's Korean War sitcom M*A*S*H -and M*A*S*H, though controversial by old TV standards, is antiwar in a context shorn of politics and anesthetized by the bedside black humor and reassuring personalities of its principals...
Blyth is a witty, often hilarious writer, and few have written more tellingly about the avian world of women's magazines. But For Better and for Worse is only half comic. The other half is a sharp, unblinking look at the ways of men and women, shorn of doctrinaire feminism...
Ironically, Poland became more homogeneously Catholic at the end of the second World War, when Moscow annexed the eastern portions and, with those lands, most of the country's remaining Orthodox Christians. The Catholic Church, shorn of extensive landholdings, was now persecuted and poor, but respected all the more for its resistance to both Nazi and Soviet occupations. As Communist cadres consolidated their power, the church became in a new way the font of national pride and cherished freedoms...
After 110 years Jefferson Davis is once again a U.S. citizen, thanks to a bill signed into law by a fellow Southerner, Jimmy Carter. Shorn of citizenship by a punitive Reconstruction Era Congress, Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, died in 1889. In 1975, General Robert E. Lee's citizenship was restored, leaving Davis the sole Confederate leader still ostracized. Carter agreed that enough was enough. Said he: "Our nation needs to clear away the guilts, enmities and recriminations of the past...
...thing, the goalpost didn't look so hot. I didn't know whether it was bad vibes from too many rehearsals of "Mandy" or what, but the old boy was really wilting. Among other things, the cross bar and two upper poles had been shorn, giving the poor guy the B-school barber shop look...