Word: barefooted
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...many buildings, separate elevators. Africans often outsmart white starters by getting on or off white elevators on the second floor, where the starters cannot catch them. Escalators, however, are integrated; the only rule, and a humane one at that, requires passengers to wear shoes-in the past, too many barefoot blacks have lost their toes...
...catching fish after the chores were done, Billie Sol was precociously thinking up deals. His father fondly remembers an event that took place when Billie was about twelve: "I was plowing behind a team of horses, and he came out there to talk to me. I remember he was barefoot...
...Djakarta diplomatic reception last year, Bung Karno (meaning Brother Karno) showed up in a beautifully tailored white uniform-barefoot. As he padded around the terraces and lawns, Sukarno explained that an electric storm was brewing and "I want to build up my energy. I absorb electric impulses from the ground." Some time ago, Bung was told by his dukun (medicine man and soothsayer) that his life would be in no danger so long as he avoided contact with steel. Sukarno thus decided against the kidney surgery advised by his medical specialists, instead relied for a cure on a team...
...orthodox Communist, cynical, opportunistic, dedicated. He believes in party discipline, and in a Cuba run by committees of technicians under the rigid control of a politburo of himself and his fellow professionals. By nature and by training he distrusts Castro's messianic brand of Marxism, his barefoot government-by-impulse, and his insatiable appetite for personal adulation. Because he could do nothing else, Roca joined forces with Castro, offering the party's organization in return for mass support. But so far, the partnership has brought only ruination to what was once one of the richest countries in Latin...
...Black feet," the nickname for Europeans, so called because most of their ancestors arrived in Algeria barefoot...