Word: barefooted
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Angola's airfields and had daylight command of the roads. But the barefoot guerrillas possessed a 100-mile stretch of the border with the Congo, and are still making hit-and-run attacks on Portuguese convoys...
After wading barefoot through a monsoon-flooded rice paddy on his first major tour of the steamy Indian hinterland, the U.S.'s new high-pocketed, highbrowed Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith and 'his wife Catherine cooled off at surf-raked Puri on the Bay of Bengal. Though they had followed the local practice of hiring a personal lifeguard against the treacherous undertow, the ambassador's lady still barely went near the water...
...landowners in many Latin countries assume that talk of reform must apply to someone else. In Guatemala, opposition by coffee growers and businessmen has managed to kill Conservative President Manuel Ydigoras Fuentes' attempts to initiate a much-needed income tax. In El Salvador, where the contrast between the barefoot poor and the well-manored rich is extreme, the influential El Diario de Hoy editorialized: "The last thing we need is a social revolution; what we need is greater mechanization...
...highly stylized picture of the body. It revealed more than it ever laconically said. Though he never went to college, he picked his prose teachers well, starting with the King James Bible. His love of nature and the vernacular, together with a kind of barefoot male camaraderie, linked him fraternally with Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Hemingway was the first of the '205 expatriates to knock on Gertrude Stein's door, and he learned the most. She taught him the impact of simple repetition and the rhythm of words...
...Army-has strengthened the rosebud mouth. He behaves with considerable authority, and shows his dramatic ability by containing his laughter when Hope Lange says (to the lad who was buying Cadillacs before he was 21): "Don't try to tell me you're just a barefoot country...