Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...that silence our hearing became acute. Footsteps of group members were unlike those of strangers. We discovered that bare feet on concrete floors made more sound than soft soles. As an early warning, we wedged an empty Coke can against the fire door outside my apartment. Whenever strangers entered, the Coke can cracked like a gun. Immediately we'd warn the group that strangers were on the floors...
...nonexistent. At Bass shoe outlets, for instance, the customer himself must find the right size shoes. Often the latest styles and fashions are not offered at outlets, and there may be a limited selection of sizes. Nor is getting a bargain guaranteed. Prices have edged up as yesteryear's bare-bones outlet stores full of seconds and irregulars have given way to today's fancy discount malls full of first-quality goods. "You need a good eye or you can still get ripped off," observes Mark Trainor, an Austin computer salesman browsing for clothes at San Marcos Factory Shops...
Although cartoons necessarily stylize human beings, there's nothing like having a visual image interwoven with bare facts to give a feeling of what a historical period actually meant to those who lived it. Whether it's the primitive swamplands of the Devonian period or the orgies of the Greek cult of Dionysos, god of wine (which started with the tearing apart of a goat, a bull or a baby), Gonick succeeds in fixing facts more in your mind than even the most exhilirating textbook. And Gonick is able to maintain the historical accuracy of his work, making...
Recently I returned home to find magazine pages at my feet, ripped into angry shreds. They were originally photographs of women's faces that I had pulled out of a magazine to dress an otherwise bare corridor wall...
Wall Street wags are convinced that the junk-bond king will cooperate with federal prosecutors in return for a reduction of his 10-year prison sentence. Why? Toupees are not allowed in the federal penal system, and Milken, who wears one, can't bear the thought of going bare...