Word: barefooted
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...quite plainly today that Kenya shall not exchange one master for a new master," Kenyatta declared. "We welcome cooperation and assistance, but we shall not be bought or blackmailed. We may be underdeveloped and our people may walk barefoot, but we are a proud people, proud of our heritage, our traditions and ancestry...
Trudging a quarter of a mile back to the starting dock, barefoot on the hot pebbly sand, can be a bit painful. But Slim Maxwell is about to install a rescue operation by using a golf cart...
...entrance to the subway") with a 3-ft. by 6½-ft. panel depicting Italian emigrants to America. "Ours is a poor country," says he of Italy. "Our people went to America because they wanted to eat." With her worldly goods wrapped in a kerchief, a barefoot mother rests with her squalling baby as if on a pilgrimage. Another panel above the doors bears the letters ITALIA and a wishbone-shaped motif of intertwined wheat stalks and vines. Like the bunches of onions hanging in Manzù's kitchen near Rome, it is a fruitful symbol of the emigrant...
...October morning in 1958, carrying an ax, a little flour, a Bible, and a copy of Pilgrim's Progress, he set out barefoot for America. He struck due north through Tanganyika, Uganda, the Sudan. Some days he walked 50 miles, living mostly on bananas and peanuts. After four months his feet were a mass of blisters. "I am mad," he muttered. But his shirt said I WILL TRY. For consolation he read Pilgrim's Progress...
...certainly looked like the Governor. But then the Governor would hardly be galloping barefoot, in pajamas and bathrobe, through the streets of suburban Des Moines at 6 in the morning. Or would he? Wearily, Iowa's Democratic Governor Harold Hughes, 43, explained that Mike, his Irish setter, had escaped from the house, and he had given chase-naturally-so as not to violate the city ordinance that prohibits dogs from running loose. After pursuing Mike for 45 minutes down streets, over front lawns and across a muddy ballpark where he lost his slippers, Hughes finally wearied of the chase...